The Morning Rant

Back when I was a youngster CBS '60 Minutes' was an interesting television magazine show. Of course it being a CBS show there was always a left lean to it. But it was quite a relevant show. That is until 2004 during the formative years of the internet and conservative talk radio. '60 Minutes' was no longer untouchable.

The new media chewed on Mary Mapes and Dan ~~Blather~~ Rather and spit them out. The ploy by '60 Minutes' to derail George W. Bush presidential bid failed.

Dan Rather would soon be out of a job at CBS. George W. Bush became president. And the prestigious '60 Minutes' was no longer prestigious.

Of course over the years CBS learned nothing of value from Rathergate. '60 Minutes' thought it could derail the Bush presidential run. Wrong. Twenty years later '60 Minutes' thought it could help out the democratic presidential nominee Kamala (The San Francisco Head Hunter) Harris.

Well we all know how that blatant election interference is working out at the moment. President Trump has sued CBS. And if that isn't enough of a headache for CBS the FCC is now involved.

So if an average Citizen Joe like myself knows '60 Minutes' is irrelevant and a looming disaster why would a sitting Republican Senator sit for them? Well of course it would be Mitch McConnell, retired Minority Leader and poster child for mandatory retirement and/or term limits.

This was probably McConnell's last interview of any kind of importance. Will McConnell be remembered as a sharp Senate tactician? Yes, some will remember him as that.
He certainly won't be remembered as a budget hawk. His last interview conducted by the witch Leslie Stahl demonstrated that Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well with Mitch and CBS.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian (ONT Cob Emeritus) at 11:00 AM

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1 Israel May Propose Moving Palestinians from Gaza to Indonesia

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:01 AM (RHGPo)

2 St

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:01 AM (MGB5H)

3 Yomama

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 04, 2025 11:01 AM (71GKV)

4 Kennedy advances in committee vote (14-13)

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:01 AM (RHGPo)

5 Grrrrrr

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:01 AM (MGB5H)

6 I remember watching 60 Minutes as a kid

Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2025 11:02 AM (fwDg9)

7 They are in talks to settle the 10B$ suit against them rn.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:03 AM (MGB5H)

8 6 I remember watching 60 Minutes as a kid
Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2025 11:02 AM (fwDg9)

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You poor bastard.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:03 AM (GBKbO)

9 Leslie Stahl has a prompter to remember to breathe.

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2025 11:03 AM (Yj6Os)

10 Palestinians to Indonesia - Witkoff floated that idea a week ago. I doubt very much it could happen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 11:03 AM (Md44Z)

11 Israel May Propose Moving Palestinians from Gaza to Indonesia
Posted by: SMOD

Wow.

They must have some amazing trebuchet tech.

Posted by: mikeski at February 04, 2025 11:03 AM (+YaA/)

12 Traitorous turtle.

Posted by: steevy at February 04, 2025 11:03 AM (KQk9m)

13 Al-Ansari said Qatar sees a pathway for the “Middle East to be great again” and views Trump as a critical partner in making that happen.

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:03 AM (RHGPo)

14 They can't abandon the only audience they have--the lunatic left.

It's like that story from yesterday about David Hogg. The left has learned nothing from 2024 and is embracing BLM/Antifa/trans with a fervor that can't be broken by reality.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 04, 2025 11:04 AM (WPL6O)

15 Mitch is a poster child for everything wrong with DC.

Look at his career and compare it to DJT's career.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 11:04 AM (Vh9CX)

16 Only bit of 60 Minutes I liked back in the day was Andy Rooney's piece.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2025 11:04 AM (LxER7)

17 Top 17?!?

Posted by: Grayman27 at February 04, 2025 11:04 AM (pgwxJ)

18 Ha!!!

Posted by: Grayman27 at February 04, 2025 11:04 AM (pgwxJ)

19 Elaine benes likes 60 minutes. Jerry finds the clock ticking unnerving.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:05 AM (MGB5H)

20 Yay, Substitute Gorilla Pundit!

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 04, 2025 11:05 AM (Q0kLU)

21 1 Israel May Propose Moving Palestinians from Gaza to Indonesia

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:01 AM (RHGPo)

Ideally all of them to the next island that will go Krakatoa. If the Jooos control weather they must also control volcanoes.

Posted by: Gref at February 04, 2025 11:05 AM (aBgBM)

22 HUGE Mistake, Phil! After Getting Heat From Homan, NJ Gov. Murphy Now Denies He's Housing Illegal Migrant

.. it's like having Walz in New Jersey

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:05 AM (RHGPo)

23 I have been saying for a bit that McConnell is functionally a Democrat.

Posted by: blaster at February 04, 2025 11:05 AM (xhfG9)

24 Trump is the rock they all broke themselves on.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 04, 2025 11:06 AM (u73oe)

25 Musk's meme ~~of the day~~ for days to come:

https://tinyurl.com/2a3ensk4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 04, 2025 11:06 AM (Ti0Hb)

26 But what about that nice man Morley Safer and his engaging travelogs?

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 11:06 AM (6CsVH)

27 Mitch McConnell going on 60 minutes is the same as Jill and Joe wearing MAGA red.

It's a message.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2025 11:06 AM (RIvkX)

28 Go away Mitch, just go away already

Posted by: Zeera , The People Are Coming at February 04, 2025 11:06 AM (nyqzE)

29
Only bit of 60 Minutes I liked back in the day was Andy Rooney's piece.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

* whining voice *
Have you ever wondered why Dan Rather is a crashing bore?

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at February 04, 2025 11:06 AM (xG4kz)

30 28 Go away Mitch, just go away already
Posted by: Zeera , The People Are Coming at February 04, 2025 11:06 AM (nyqzE)

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"No."
-KY Republican primary voters who gave him a 75 point victory in 2020

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

31 >>> 1 Israel May Propose Moving Palestinians from Gaza to Indonesia
Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:01 AM (RHGPo)

No.

Posted by: Indonesia at February 04, 2025 11:07 AM (Vqx30)

32 The picture of Saint Harambe at the top made me cry. He still lives on in reruns at the Gorilla Channel.

Posted by: Good Night, Fair Prince! at February 04, 2025 11:07 AM (G5+As)

33 'I am the wall on which progress breaks
-John Dutton"

-Donald Trump

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:07 AM (MGB5H)

34 Will McConnell be remembered as a sharp Senate tactician? Yes, some will remember him as that.
He certainly won't be remembered as a budget hawk. His last interview conducted by the witch Leslie Stahl demonstrated that Trump Derangement Syndrome is alive and well with Mitch and CBS.

If I know my GOP apologists, the only thing that fully-bought-and-paid-for Chinese asset will be remembered for is "At least he kept Merrick Garland off SCOTUS."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 04, 2025 11:07 AM (Q0kLU)

35 Leslie Stahl was a 1 back in the day.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

36 This is McConnell reach around to Chuck Schumer and the D party.

Keeping Garland off SCOTUS was great. But I don't think Mitch thought at the time it would allow Trump to appoint 3 justices. (Thank you RBG for your stubbornness).

And it allows Mitch to tell his story before others do.

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 04, 2025 11:07 AM (JkCto)

37 34 If I know my GOP apologists, the only thing that fully-bought-and-paid-for Chinese asset will be remembered for is "At least he kept Merrick Garland off SCOTUS."
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 04, 2025 11:07 AM (Q0kLU)

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I'm surprised they don't bring up "He stopped Single Payer" anymore.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

38 22 .. it's like having Walz in New Jersey

waltzing matilda > walz in new jersey

Posted by: anachronda at February 04, 2025 11:08 AM (oY6Yp)

39 36 This is McConnell reach around to Chuck Schumer and the D party.

Keeping Garland off SCOTUS was great. But I don't think Mitch thought at the time it would allow Trump to appoint 3 justices. (Thank you RBG for your stubbornness).

And it allows Mitch to tell his story before others do.
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 04, 2025 11:07 AM (JkCto)

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100% Mitch thought it would hurt Trump.

Swamp creature thinks that swamp process is super important to voters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:08 AM (GBKbO)

40 I remember playing "Theme from 60 Minutes" in High School Marching Band.

Worst half-time show ever!

Posted by: Minuteman at February 04, 2025 11:08 AM (z5Vb+)

41 Well of course it would be Mitch McConnell, retired Minority Leader and poster child for mandatory retirement and/or term limits.

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Not to mention common-sense glitch control.

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 11:09 AM (vAHT7)

42 >>> 30 28 Go away Mitch, just go away already
Posted by: Zeera , The People Are Coming at February 04, 2025 11:06 AM (nyqzE)

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"No."
-KY Republican primary voters who gave him a 75 point victory in 2020
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:07 AM (GBKbO)

Mitch is much more likely to expire before his term is over vs say, Miss Lindsey. I hope Nicole Shanahan et al have considered working to replace the KY *governor*.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2025 11:09 AM (Vqx30)

43 I had given him credit for the flip of the supreme court, but I've since come to realize it was actually failure theatre... but Donald Trump didn't fail, messing up his plans.

Our "leaders" in the Republican party have been Quislings for the past 30+ years. I think Newt was likely the last one working for the base (which is why they had to get rid of him.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at February 04, 2025 11:09 AM (N1DT3)

44 This was an awful interview and Mitch is now less popular than he was before, which wasn’t very popular. This doesn’t matter to him, obviously, because he feels the issue is we are wrong, not him. He is not long for the world, though, and it is sad he finds himself so important he won’t retire to enjoy the time he does have left.

Posted by: Piper at February 04, 2025 11:09 AM (pZEOD)

45 “What Trump and Musk have done is not only wrong, it's illegal," said Rep. Don Beyer of Virginia during a news conference outside USAID headquarters. "USAID was established by an act of Congress, and it can only be disbanded by an act of Congress. Stopping this will require action by the courts and for Republicans to show up and show courage and stand up for our country.”

Beyer was joined by fellow Reps. Gerry Connolly, Eugene Vindman and Suhas Subramanyam of Virginia; Jamie Raskin, Johnny Olszewski and Sarah Elfreth of Maryland; and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Jim McGovern of Massachusetts and Yassamin Ansari of Arizona.

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USAID was subsequently established by the executive order of President John F. Kennedy, who sought to unite several existing foreign assistance organizations and programs under one agency.

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:09 AM (RHGPo)

46 6 I remember watching 60 Minutes as a kid
Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2025 11:02 AM (fwDg9)

Probably force-fed plain Cheerios for breakfast too. You have my deepest sympathies.

Posted by: The only cereal sadder than Kaboom at February 04, 2025 11:09 AM (URPBf)

47 Bomb the fvck out of Egypt's insane Gaza border fortifications so they may be reunited with their brethren.

"They are refugees for 70 years!"

Also the left, "they refuse to leave their precious homes!"

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2025 11:09 AM (RIvkX)

48 So if an average Citizen Joe like myself knows '60 Minutes' is irrelevant and a looming disaster why would a sitting Republican Senator sit for them? Well of course it would be Mitch McConnell, retired Minority Leader and poster child for mandatory retirement and/or term limits.

We still haven't found out yet how much laundered USAID money he was being paid to support the Deep State.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at February 04, 2025 11:09 AM (uxCna)

49 31 >>> 1 Israel May Propose Moving Palestinians from Gaza to Indonesia
Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:01 AM (RHGPo)

No.
Posted by: Indonesia at February 04, 2025 11:07 AM (Vqx30)

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YOO HOO! Boys, I'm over heeeere!

Posted by: Greenland at February 04, 2025 11:10 AM (dDmld)

50 Mitch is a spent force. When he was a force, it wasn't for the benefit of conservatives or the American people, it was for the uniparty and the personal enrichment that comes with being "in the club".
I tire of hearing about Garland's nomination and suspect that we may never know his true motivation for holding it up, but I seriously doubt it is heroic, as is often portrayed.

Someone show his ass to the door please. Now.
Que the Visiting Angels music and be done with it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 04, 2025 11:10 AM (FCbAQ)

51 Turtle soup is a thing, Mitch.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 04, 2025 11:10 AM (vHIwP)

52 Multi-billion dollar Obama "renewable" energy project being scrapped, with resulting net environmental damage galore:

https://tinyurl.com/9pmd6v8z

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 04, 2025 11:10 AM (Ti0Hb)

53 >>> 41 Well of course it would be Mitch McConnell, retired Minority Leader and poster child for mandatory retirement and/or term limits.

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Not to mention common-sense glitch control.
Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 11:09 AM (vAHT7)

Posted by: Mitch McConnell at February 04, 2025 11:10 AM (Vqx30)

54 16 Only bit of 60 Minutes I liked back in the day was Andy Rooney's piece.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2025 11:04 AM (LxER7)

Me: "Magik 8-Ball, has 60 Minutes always been Leftist propaganda?"

Magik 8-Ball: "Stop falling off turnip trucks!"

Posted by: Gref at February 04, 2025 11:10 AM (aBgBM)

55 Andy Rooney's eyebrows scared me.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 11:10 AM (IOGah)

56 HUGE Mistake, Phil! After Getting Heat From Homan, NJ Gov. Murphy Now Denies He's Housing Illegal Migrant

.. it's like having Walz in New Jersey
Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:05 AM (RHGPo)

I think he merits an after midnight raid...have narcs toss his house...those guys know how to toss a house.

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2025 11:10 AM (Yj6Os)

57 remember playing "Theme from 60 Minutes" in High School Marching Band.

Worst half-time show ever!
Posted by: Minuteman a

Of course. It was only 30 minutes. (Wait for it)

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 04, 2025 11:11 AM (JkCto)

58 Bitch McConnell represents EVERYTHING about why conservatives threw the GOPe overboard and went to Trump.

He tried to keep Hegseth from being nominated but nobody other than Murkowski and Collins were willing to walk the plank for him. He's done.

Now he's just a pathetic, weak, powerless old man lashing out in his final petty actions.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at February 04, 2025 11:11 AM (setIA)

59 why would a sitting Republican Senator sit for them

Because he's out of touch and refuses to admit that the mainstream media is long dead. It's like Principal Skinner searching the 4H Club for kids that were skipping school.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 04, 2025 11:11 AM (lXoJ5)

60 Vienna Opera Ball waltz > Waltzing Matilda > Tim Walz

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 04, 2025 11:11 AM (Q0kLU)

61 McConnell is the face of everything that's wrong with the GOP.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 04, 2025 11:11 AM (dDmld)

62 You learn a lot from reading old headlines. It's positively amazing the bs we forget.

2024 saw CBS and 60 Minutes hiding a full unedited tape of the Democrat candidate.

2020 saw Trump *releasing* a full unedited tape of his own interview (as a candidate) with 60 Minutes, and CBS got pissed off.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:11 AM (7Hjh9)

63 Couple Andy Rooney's that weren't awful:
- He visited the GSA and found that they stocked 2763 kinds of rubber bands. Proto-DOGE.
- He interviewed $200K/yr system analysts who made the decisions on restroom sitings in National Parks.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (6CsVH)

64 McConnell is the face of everything that's wrong with the GOP.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 04, 2025 11:11 AM (dDmld)

That's not his face.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (7Hjh9)

65 Andy Rooney's eyebrows scared me.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

I know, right?
-- Brooke Shields

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (77rzZ)

66 People like McConnell ran on a slate of changes for decades that Trump is actually DOING now...and they hate him for it

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (t0Rmr)

67 Leslie Stahl was a 1 back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

Gals like her only got their jobs because they were 1ing all the execs at the networks.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (lH8E4)

68 60 minutes did two hit pieces on Trump on Sunday.

1. Turtle/Leslie Stahl Trump hate fest
2. Tariffs are bad, Trump is bad.

Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (G0vdT)

69 NFL commissioner says league will keep DEI policies (yes, he actually said this)

-
Well, you have to admit, blacks are both underrepresented and underpaid in the NFL

Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)

70 Unleash the fury Mitch!

Posted by: Barry Manilow at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (KVy6F)

71 1
‘ Israel May Propose Moving Palestinians from Gaza to Indonesia’

Indonesia drew the short straw?

Actually, it’s not a bad idea. I bet there are several islands the Palestinians could be isolated on.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 04, 2025 11:13 AM (jbnUc)

72 But what about that nice man Morley Safer and his engaging travelogs?
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Wasn't that the George Costanza lookalike, Charles Kuralt?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 04, 2025 11:13 AM (J2vNu)

73 Google up the original cast of 60 Minutes and you will see a list of people Senator McCarthy would have rightly deemed communist or communist sympathizers.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 11:13 AM (IOGah)

74 Couple Andy Rooney's that weren't awful:
- He visited the GSA and found that they stocked 2763 kinds of rubber bands. Proto-DOGE.
- He interviewed $200K/yr system analysts who made the decisions on restroom sitings in National Parks.
Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (6CsVH)

I'll always remember his 'cotton balls in pill bottles' rant.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:13 AM (MGB5H)

75
EM' PAWPAWS FOADDY-SEBUN1!!1!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at February 04, 2025 11:13 AM (EFZgU)

76 Cassidy is a YES on RFK...apparently he thanked JD Vance for honest communication this weekend.

Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 11:13 AM (exHjb)

77 So if an average Citizen Joe like myself knows '60 Minutes' is irrelevant and a looming disaster why would a sitting Republican Senator sit for them?

🤷‍♀️ Because the show still seems to be definitive truth for the middle aged, (and older) White women in my Region and, therefore, probably other regions? They enjoy its calm demeanor, too.

But not I. None of it.

Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 04, 2025 11:13 AM (NFX2v)

78 Oh and Leslie Stahl still hasn't apologized to Trump about the Hunter laptop.

Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 11:14 AM (G0vdT)

79 NFL commissioner says league will keep DEI policies (yes, he actually said this)

-
Well, you have to admit, blacks are both underrepresented and underpaid in the NFL
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)

Just means they are keeping the racist Rooney Rule.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:14 AM (MGB5H)

80 'I am the wall on which progress breaks
-John Dutton"

-Donald Trump
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:07 AM (MGB5H)

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
- Wayne Gretzky"

- Michael Scott

Posted by: Doof at February 04, 2025 11:14 AM (gEQYA)

81 Gals like her only got their jobs because they were 1ing all the execs at the networks.

Pretty much everyone that is successful in Hollywood got there through family connections or sleeping with directors/producers...

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 11:14 AM (t0Rmr)

82 I wonder how much USAID money ended up in Mitch's pocket?

Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 04, 2025 11:14 AM (wnG0i)

83 Andy Rooney's eyebrows scared me.

Pfft. Amateur.

Posted by: Zombie Leonid Brezhnev at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (Q0kLU)

84 At least the Dateline people rigged up a GM truck with fireworks. 60 Minutes gives up a half hour of soporific rambling by a corrupt, washed-up pol.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (dDmld)

85 A new report out of Harvard University adds to concerns about the academic rigor of Ivy League universities, finding that classes are not a priority for many students.

A committee commissioned by the institution’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences found many Harvard students “prioritize extracurricular commitments over their academics,” The Crimson student newspaper reports.

“Many Harvard College students do not prioritize their courses and some view extensive extracurricular commitments as a more fulfilling, meaningful, and useful allocation of their time,” the Classroom Social Compact Committee wrote. “Most faculty view student curricular disengagement with alarm.”

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (RHGPo)

86 Looking at the turtle, methinks he is just a few weeks behind old ice-cream Joe in the dementia department.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (KVy6F)

87 Posted by: Doof at February 04, 2025 11:14 AM (gEQYA)

I knew someone would get that.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (MGB5H)

88 >>> 63 Couple Andy Rooney's that weren't awful:
- He visited the GSA and found that they stocked 2763 kinds of rubber bands. Proto-DOGE.
- He interviewed $200K/yr system analysts who made the decisions on restroom sitings in National Parks.
Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (6CsVH)

I didn't know our congresscritters had that many relatives, or campaign contributors, who owned businesses supplying rubber bands (even if they sold more than one type per business that's a shitload of rubber band types).
Does anyone believe someone siting park poo palaces *really* spend 40 hours a week doing that? and you could do a lot of hmm, stuff, with $200/k even now, let alone when Andy Rooney was still on the air.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (Vqx30)

89 The Democrats have made it perfectly clear that they believe a President is not entitled to choose his own cabinet.

The Go-Along Republicans need to file this away.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (aD39U)

90 It's weird that my dad was a Goldwater and a Reagan conservative (he would have made a good AoS troll) but watched 60 Minutes religiously and read Time Magazine. I think Democrats did a better job back then of appearing patriotic.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (7Hjh9)

91 87 Posted by: Doof at February 04, 2025 11:14 AM (gEQYA)

I knew someone would get that.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (MGB5H)

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I didn't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

92 66 People like McConnell ran on a slate of changes for decades that Trump is actually DOING now...and they hate him for it

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (t0Rmr)

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: John McCain - Wishing this damn funeral would end - I hate organ music! at February 04, 2025 11:16 AM (aBgBM)

93 NFL commissioner says league will keep DEI policies (yes, he actually said this)

-
Well, you have to admit, blacks are both underrepresented and underpaid in the NFL
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)

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Now how about the NBA?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 04, 2025 11:16 AM (dDmld)

94 Actually, it’s not a bad idea. I bet there are several islands the Palestinians could be isolated on.
Posted by: Dr. Claw
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Where's that island where they ate Rockefeller's kid?

Posted by: Cosda at February 04, 2025 11:16 AM (RtvOB)

95 To properly site National Park restrooms, you have to use algorithms to calculate their impact on "wildernism." It takes highly paid systems-thinking experts to come up with those. E.g., subtract 1 point if there's toilet paper in there. Add 1 point if the roof leaks.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 11:16 AM (6CsVH)

96 McConnell is the face of everything that's wrong with the GOP.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 04, 2025 11:11 AM (dDmld)

That's not his face.
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (7Hjh9)

My thoughts immediately went to him pulling off the mask and revealing the lizard underneath.
Thanks for the chuckle

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 04, 2025 11:16 AM (FCbAQ)

97 Has McConnel ever explained his hatred for Trump?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 04, 2025 11:16 AM (kTd/k)

98 82 I wonder how much USAID money ended up in Mitch's pocket?
Posted by: Thomas Paine at February 04, 2025 11:14 AM (wnG0i)
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Actually his wife's and wife's family pockets.

Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 11:16 AM (G0vdT)

99 71 I bet there are several islands the Palestinians could be isolated on.

And then they can charge the USAF and IDF for bombing privileges.

Posted by: NR Pax at February 04, 2025 11:16 AM (lXoJ5)

100 96 My thoughts immediately went to him pulling off the mask and revealing the lizard underneath.
Thanks for the chuckle
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 04, 2025 11:16 AM (FCbAQ)

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That turtle face is a mask?!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

101 Seriously, who really cares about either of these clowns ?

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at February 04, 2025 11:16 AM (ME4A9)

102

The entire MFM should be sodomized by rabid hyenas with AIDs and tossed into burning dumpsters full of toxic waste... then, we get medievil on them...

Posted by: My Pimp Shot My Dealer at February 04, 2025 11:16 AM (2o+9r)

103 He certainly won't be remembered as a budget hawk.

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When Cocaine Mitch assumed office in 1985, the U.S. (Nominal -- excluding unfunded liabilities) National Debt was just over $1.5 trillion. Today, 40 years later, it is just over $36 trillion (and was increasing at $1 trillion every 100 days before Hurricane Trump took The Swamp by storm).

"Heck of a job, Glitchy!"

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 11:17 AM (vAHT7)

104 2. Tariffs are bad, Trump is bad.

The left: Taxes are the price you have to pay to live in a modern society. If you don't want to pay taxes go live in Somalia

Also the left: Trump wants taxes on imports? TAXES ARE BAD HOW DARE HE?!?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 11:17 AM (t0Rmr)

105 Why couldn't Mitch have been in his sister-in-laws Tesla? Turtles love ponds.

Posted by: Testudo! at February 04, 2025 11:17 AM (G5+As)

106 It is cruel for China to order Mitch to go for interviews.

It's elder abuse.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 11:17 AM (aD39U)

107 Kentucky, much like NC is a Democrat Penis Sipper state. They love them some Democrat Wang in the governors chair to show how “independent” they are. Just like that Fraud state, NH.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 11:17 AM (3UP5d)

108 Andy Rooney could be the charming curmudgeon right up until he wasn't. And then he was an ass.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2025 11:17 AM (W/lyH)

109 Was it just me or was Mitch really struggling to get through that interview.

I'd love to see the unedited tape.

Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 11:17 AM (G0vdT)

110 I started to watch ABC's 20/20 instead of 60 Minutes just to see the John Stossel segment.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 11:18 AM (IOGah)

111 'I am the wall on which progress breaks - John Dutton"

I love me some Taylor Sheridan dialog!

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 11:18 AM (6CsVH)

112 I knew someone would get that.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (MGB5H)

"Nobody will get any of the references you don't drop"
- Me

Posted by: Doof at February 04, 2025 11:18 AM (gEQYA)

113 Did Mitch ever have a chin?

Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 04, 2025 11:18 AM (kTd/k)

114 Maxine Waters' Hair, you are truly a treasure.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 04, 2025 11:19 AM (tT6L1)

115 107 Kentucky, much like NC is a Democrat Penis Sipper state. They love them some Democrat Wang in the governors chair to show how “independent” they are. Just like that Fraud state, NH.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 11:17 AM (3UP5d)

=====

2020, Stein won by fraud.

2024, Robinson lost because he was massively controversial and thought his largely anonymous post as Lieutenant Governor would translate easily to the governor's spot. He lost by about 13 points.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)

116 I knew someone would get that.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (MGB5H)

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I didn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

How obtuse

Posted by: Doof at February 04, 2025 11:19 AM (gEQYA)

117 Cassidy is a YES on RFK...apparently he thanked JD Vance for honest communication this weekend.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 11:13 AM (exHjb)

Vance: Hi Bill, just thought I'd mention that if you vote against RFKJ we'll feed you to the gators.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 11:19 AM (ExV1e)

118 Did Mitch ever have a chin?
Posted by: Shy lurker aka Northernlurker at February 04, 2025 11:18 AM (kTd/k)

He lost it Jay Leno in an ill advised bet on automobiles.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:19 AM (MGB5H)

119 '60 Minutes' -"The 'Kaboom' of news shows."

Posted by: Stateless...30% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 04, 2025 11:19 AM (jvJvP)

120 Where's that island where they ate Rockefeller's kid?

No Halal Long Pig please.

Posted by: Someone from Papa New Guinea at February 04, 2025 11:20 AM (t0Rmr)

121
Eh.

This is just The Turtle's last, big, well-televised event to give the finger to America,

just as Cancerous-Braintard John McCain did as his final act on the Get Rid of Obamacare vote.

Ever wonder what a Turtle smiling evilly looks like?

Tune in and see.

It will probably make McCain's satanic smirk as he gave us all the thumb's down look like a sweet baby's smile.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 04, 2025 11:20 AM (iJfKG)

122 off sock

Posted by: Gref at February 04, 2025 11:20 AM (aBgBM)

123 Lol:

Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini)

I'm old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.

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Flying gas station attendant is losing his Ukraine grift.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2025 11:20 AM (4tmpE)

124 Leslie Stahl is a whore.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 04, 2025 11:20 AM (L1HY4)

125 I remember watching 60 Minutes as a kid
Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2025 11:02 AM (fwDg9)

Probably force-fed plain Cheerios for breakfast too. You have my deepest sympathies.
Posted by: The only cereal sadder than Kaboom at February 04, 2025 11:09 AM (URPBf)

***

KIX enters the chat...

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 04, 2025 11:20 AM (1FWWQ)

126 Very glad I never achieved any level of success in life to the point where I was able to look at human beings as anything other than fellow people, as men like Mitch McConnell have.

When you achieve these heights, rather than maturing and becoming reticent for your faults and sins, repenting for them and searching for ways to try and reconcile yourself with those you have wronged and giving honor to your Creator, instead your life becomes a series of trying to deny your sins, gaslight people into naming a bridge in your honor, and preparing your justification speech you plan on delivering on the day of judgement.

Mitch McConnell had in his power the ability to relieve the burden of the people, promote a peaceful existence throughout the world, stand against the slaughter of the unborn, battle degeneracy, and promote truth and righteousness.

Instead he opted for personal enrichment.

There will be much to answer for.

Posted by: Wowzers at February 04, 2025 11:20 AM (IcDn5)

127 123 Lol:

Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini)

I'm old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.

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Flying gas station attendant is losing his Ukraine grift.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2025 11:20 AM (4tmpE)

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The idea that the president has no power over the executive branch is a weird way to assert that we should have 3 branches of government.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:20 AM (GBKbO)

128 Did Kinzinger cry again?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 04, 2025 11:21 AM (dDmld)

129 Cassidy is a YES on RFK...apparently he thanked JD Vance for honest communication this weekend.

After the greatest failure by the American healthcare establishment in history the notion that bringing in a reformer is too radical to do is insane.

Posted by: Someone from Papa New Guinea at February 04, 2025 11:21 AM (t0Rmr)

130 The ancien regime is fading, looks like… the future is before us, on both sides… our side looks pretty good, in comparison…

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 11:21 AM (PCK5/)

131 82. I wonder how much USAID money ended up in Mitch's pocket?

Posted by: Thomas Paine

Or Elaine's (Chao) or her family's? We'll never know.

But she was respected as Secretary of Labor years ago and she also resigned a little early as Secretary of Transportation because of January 6th.

>Politico, Chao resigns from Transportation Department, citing ‘traumatic,’ ‘avoidable’ Capitol riot
Elaine Chao is the first of what had been a rumored wave of Cabinet secretaries who were reportedly discussing stepping aside in protest. 01/07/2021

Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 04, 2025 11:21 AM (NFX2v)

132 At one time the Nazis were thinking about deporting all the European Jews to Madagascar.

Maybe the Palestinians would like that option.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 11:21 AM (IOGah)

133 So Cassidy thanked Vance for his “counsel.”

Vance: Bill, do you know what it means to be Viking fucked?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 04, 2025 11:21 AM (u73oe)

134 >> Cassidy is a YES on RFK...apparently he thanked JD Vance for honest communication this weekend.

Cassidy is caving because it’s been made clear if he’s a “no” for either RFK or Tulsi, he would be primaried away, which we should do for Mr Inflation Reduction Act anyway.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 11:21 AM (3UP5d)

135 Where's that island where they ate Rockefeller's kid?

Same one where they ate Dementia Boy's uncle?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2025 11:22 AM (4tmpE)

136 The idea that the president has no power over the executive branch is a weird way to assert that we should have 3 branches of government.

This argument comes up every single time there is an R president.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 11:22 AM (t0Rmr)

137 That turtle face is a mask?!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

Right. That's what makes it effective.
Nobody would suspect a face like that to be fake.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 04, 2025 11:22 AM (FCbAQ)

138 136 The idea that the president has no power over the executive branch is a weird way to assert that we should have 3 branches of government.

This argument comes up every single time there is an R president.
Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 11:22 AM (t0Rmr)

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"Weird."
-Eric Holder, AG and President Obama's wing man.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:22 AM (GBKbO)

139 I knew someone would get that.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (MGB5H)

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I didn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:15 AM (GBKbO)

How obtuse
Posted by: Doof at February 04, 2025 11:19 AM (gEQYA)
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*touches side of nose*

*dips chin slightly*

*winks*

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2025 11:22 AM (RIvkX)

140 Leslie Stahl is a whore.
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Insulting whores are we??

Posted by: Queen of filthy and putresence at February 04, 2025 11:22 AM (+L8tT)

141 The new media chewed on Mary Mapes..."

I'm not affiliated with her.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at February 04, 2025 11:23 AM (PiwSw)

142 Imagine Mitch w/a Kirk Douglas chin implant.

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2025 11:23 AM (Yj6Os)

143 Did Kinzinger cry again?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 04, 2025 11:21 AM (dDmld)

He's never stopped. I don't know why he continues to cry on X. He's a laughing stock.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2025 11:23 AM (4tmpE)

144 My wife used to watch CBS Sunday Morning every week. The segments were largely human interest stories, and any politics were fairly mild (they might have an interview with a politician, but the interview would then be some aspect of their lives, and not politics).

That changed a while back. I forget if it was with Trump, or earlier than that, but the political shift was so blatantly obvious that they felt the need to take time on air to respond to viewers complaints. Of course, they justified it to themselves, and continued the course.

My wife no longer watches it.

Posted by: No One of Consequence at February 04, 2025 11:23 AM (OGOaV)

145 A Musk Oxcracy?

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:23 AM (7Hjh9)

146 OT:
A more likely scam is WFH from a cheaper city while still receiving locality pay adjustments for an expensive city (NYC is a 38% increase over GS rate and DC is 34%)
Posted by: Chuck C at January 31, 2025 04:57 PM (D0HYP)

This is nearly impossible.

Locality pay adjustments are made based on your mailing address, not your work address. If an employee got to stay remote and then moved, their pay was adjusted.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 31, 2025 05:04 PM

Is this the window where I can cash my tickets?

Today's sidebar: Autism Capital @AutismCapital

NEW: Senator Joni Ernst said that USAID employees claimed they lived in Washington DC to collect higher salaries and expense write offs but actually lives in other locations. This was done with the full supervision and acceptance of their bosses at these Federal agencies.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (D0HYP)

147 He's never stopped. I don't know why he continues to cry on X. He's a laughing stock.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2025 11:23 AM (4tmpE)

Tryna to stay visible for his office run in TX. Though it seems an odd strategy.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (MGB5H)

148 It is sad that Trump is already a powerless lame duck.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (aD39U)

149 My response to all the Left's lying whining is

Cry hard bitches

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (IOGah)

150 I'm hoping killing off USAID puts a lot of former politicians in the poor house.

Looking at you, Paul Ryan.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (tT6L1)

151 NH’s new motto should be “Live Fraud or Die”.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (3UP5d)

152 146 NEW: Senator Joni Ernst said that USAID employees claimed they lived in Washington DC to collect higher salaries and expense write offs but actually lives in other locations. This was done with the full supervision and acceptance of their bosses at these Federal agencies.
Posted by: Chuck C at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (D0HYP)

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It is impossible for the executive branch to break rules and laws like this. Just impossible.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (GBKbO)

153 ‘ McConnell is the face of everything that's wrong with the GOP.’

He’s a unifying figure.
Everyone hates him.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (jbnUc)

154 Politico, Chao resigns from Transportation Department, citing ‘traumatic,’ ‘avoidable’ Capitol riot
Elaine Chao is the first of what had been a rumored wave of Cabinet secretaries who were reportedly discussing stepping aside in protest. 01/07/2021
Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 04, 2025 11:21 AM (NFX2v)

===

A RINO backstabber??

Say it ain't so!

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (RIvkX)

155 The Left are so transparent. They know the Turnip is popular now so they have to recalibrate the Alinsky Hate Machine to point to a different billionaire to wage their class warfare on.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (7Hjh9)

156 Leslie Stahl is a whore.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory

Hey! What about me?!

Posted by: Zombie Jessica Savitch at February 04, 2025 11:25 AM (WXNFJ)

157 BREAKING: (Folks are speculating if this is the Act Blue money - PII means personally identifiable info)...

"RandoLand.us
@RandoLand_us
Millennium Challenge Corporation grant (2024)
Recipient: Redacted Due To PII

Amount: $624,824,543
Outlayed: $0

Purpose: Redacted due to PII

Country: Indonesia"

Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 11:25 AM (exHjb)

158 Cenk Unger is convinced the American people are going to turn on Musk cox 'he is moving too fast and breaking things'...yeah, that's why we voted for Trump and by extension, DOGE. To work fast. Did the libtards really think Musk was going to dawdle and come out with a stupid fucking report no one will read in 3 years?

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at February 04, 2025 11:25 AM (DJ7uY)

159 Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini)

I'm old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.

Congress hasn't passed a budget for over a third of your life. Congress hasn't taken responsibility for the rules we live under, the wars we fight, of the health and security of the nation.

Fuck all the way off.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 11:25 AM (ExV1e)

160 Kinzinger has blocked replies on X.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2025 11:25 AM (4tmpE)

161 Good gosh, I look at the sidebar of Ernst and think to myself, these people really should have quietly accepted their fate, because there's no way to avoid an investigation, now.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 04, 2025 11:26 AM (tT6L1)

162 Cassidy is a YES on RFK...apparently he thanked JD Vance for honest communication this weekend.
Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 11:13 AM (exHjb)

Vance: Hi Bill, just thought I'd mention that if you vote against RFKJ we'll feed you to the gators.

We used to hear lots of complaining, often justified, that the GOP always broke ranks, while the Dems were united, because Pelosi put the fear of God in them.

Can't say that anymore.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2025 11:26 AM (xCA6C)

163 Posted by: Chuck C at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (D0HYP)

Nice!

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:26 AM (7Hjh9)

164 158 Cenk Unger is convinced the American people are going to turn on Musk cox 'he is moving too fast and breaking things'...yeah, that's why we voted for Trump and by extension, DOGE. To work fast. Did the libtards really think Musk was going to dawdle and come out with a stupid fucking report no one will read in 3 years?
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at February 04, 2025 11:25 AM (DJ7uY)

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1. The American public Do. Not. Care. About. Any. Of. This. Inside baseball bullshit from DC actually makes an impression on the larger public once a generation, if that. It's gotten harder with the 24 hour news cycle and every story being sold as the new Watergate.

2. Philomena Cunk > Cenk Unger

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)

165 159 Well put.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 11:26 AM (6CsVH)

166 He's never stopped. I don't know why he continues to cry on X. He's a laughing stock.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2025 11:23 AM (4tmpE)

How long has he been out of office? Why is he considered relevant?

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2025 11:26 AM (Yj6Os)

167 Lol:

Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini)

I'm old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.

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I'm Sure he remembers also that the legislative branch offshored their responsiblities to the executive over and over and over again by allowing regulations to do the dirty work that would get the congress unelected.
Lazy, low T man-baby should go away.
Time for another cry and a nap

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 04, 2025 11:26 AM (FCbAQ)

168 As I recall it was 60 Minutes attempt to rig SUVs as unsafe at any speed that killed their believability. Dittos - sudden acceleration of Audis. I did enjoy watching Leslie Stall ask whether hookers are orally pleasured by their Johns. Jeebus.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 11:26 AM (Wg6v7)

169 As part of the libel case, Trump has just announced 60 Minutes will be cut to 47 Minutes.

Posted by: TV Guide at February 04, 2025 11:27 AM (G5+As)

170 At one time the Nazis were thinking about deporting all the European Jews to Madagascar.

Maybe the Palestinians would like that option.

We object!

Posted by: Madagascar's unique and diverse wildlife at February 04, 2025 11:27 AM (D0HYP)

171 Did Kinzinger cry again?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at February 04, 2025 11:21 AM (dDmld)

He's never stopped. I don't know why he continues to cry on X. He's a laughing stock.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2025 11:23 AM (4tmpE)

Somebody hid a Carolina Reaper pepper his tampon.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 11:27 AM (VwHCD)

172 the future is before us, on both sides… our side looks pretty good, in comparison…
Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 11:21 AM

Enjoy it while you can, because I'm coming, and the Democrat Party is coming with me!

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate, and DNC Vice-Chairpyrsyn at February 04, 2025 11:27 AM (a3Q+t)

173 Leslie Stahl was a 1 back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg

So was Taylor Lorenz, somewhere around the Mayflower Compact.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at February 04, 2025 11:27 AM (fQmeC)

174 NFL commissioner says league will keep DEI policies (yes, he actually said this)

-
Well, you have to admit, blacks are both underrepresented and underpaid in the NFL
Posted by: Anonosaurus Rex, Now Is the Winter of Our Discontent Made Glorious Summer By This Son of [New] York at February 04, 2025 11:12 AM (L/fGl)

Not enough big fat lesbians in the league. Although, if you need them to block a defensive lineman who's rushing the passer, then the QB probably shouldn't have been where he is in the first place.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 11:27 AM (Hnlcj)

175 Leslie Stahl is a whore.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory
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This I can confirm

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 04, 2025 11:27 AM (EFZgU)

176 I guess we are a Muskocracy now.

We are Muskovites.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

177 My wife used to watch CBS Sunday Morning every week. The segments were largely human interest stories, and any politics were fairly mild (they might have an interview with a politician, but the interview would then be some aspect of their lives, and not politics).
Posted by: No One of Consequence

And Charles Kuralt was a completely straight shooter. Just ask his second family that he hide for decades.

Posted by: Tonypete at February 04, 2025 11:28 AM (WXNFJ)

178 And here to castigate a talking head (Margaret Brennan) on ANOTHER CBS news show (Face the Nation):

T. Becket Adams
@BecketAdams
Feb 2
I hadn’t really noticed it until last week, but basically any muted video of her makes me feel like I’m being yelled at for forgetting our anniversary.

Posted by: m at February 04, 2025 11:28 AM (v0TzN)

179 Back in the SCOTUS hearing days I donated and received a Trump/turtle tee shirt.
By the time it arrived I'd already move off McConnell, and never wore it.
Now I have to go find and burn it.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 04, 2025 11:28 AM (4780s)

180 Couple Andy Rooney's that weren't awful:
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I'll always remember his 'cotton balls in pill bottles' rant.

He was a hobby woodworker. The monologue I remember was him talking about showing somebody a large slab of some kind of wood. The person asked what he was going to make out of it. Andy replied "There's nothing I could make out of it that would be more beautiful than what it is right now." I can relate. I have seen $3K slabs that -- if I could afford it -- I would sand, oil, and hang on the wall.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 04, 2025 11:28 AM (/y8xj)

181 As I recall it was 60 Minutes attempt to rig SUVs as unsafe at any speed that killed their believability. Dittos - sudden acceleration of Audis. I did enjoy watching Leslie Stall ask whether hookers are orally pleasured by their Johns. Jeebus.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 11:26 AM (Wg6v7)

That was Dateline NBC

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:28 AM (7Hjh9)

182 Was it SNL that did a Andy Rooney parody?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 11:28 AM (IOGah)

183 People who vote under pressure were never really with you at all, and will throw you under the bus at first chance. For them it’s a matter of survival, not principle. Mark my words, Cassidy, Collins, Murkowski, etc. will burn the party and American people first chance they get. It should be our goal to replace them. Period.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 11:28 AM (3UP5d)

184 176 I guess we are a Muskocracy now.

We are Muskovites.
Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

hahahahahaha
Good one.

Posted by: m at February 04, 2025 11:29 AM (v0TzN)

185 145 A Musk Oxcracy?

musk rat love > musk oxcracy

Posted by: anachronda at February 04, 2025 11:29 AM (oY6Yp)

186 Back in the SCOTUS hearing days I donated and received a Trump/turtle tee shirt.
By the time it arrived I'd already move off McConnell, and never wore it.
Now I have to go find and burn it.
Posted by: From about That Time at February 04, 2025 11:28 AM

It will make fine patch material for cleaning your weapons.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 11:29 AM (aD39U)

187 183 People who vote under pressure were never really with you at all, and will throw you under the bus at first chance. For them it’s a matter of survival, not principle. Mark my words, Cassidy, Collins, Murkowski, etc. will burn the party and American people first chance they get. It should be our goal to replace them. Period.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 11:28 AM (3UP5d)

======

That's politics.

It's always about incentives. Nothing lasts forever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

188 The Dems vote for David Hogg may be predictive of their inability to raise money going forward.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 11:29 AM (Wg6v7)

189 76
‘ apparently he thanked JD Vance for honest communication this weekend.’

I’ll bet Trump is glad to have a useful VP this time around.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 04, 2025 11:29 AM (jbnUc)

190 I hadn’t really noticed it until last week, but basically any muted video of her makes me feel like I’m being yelled at for forgetting our anniversary.

Feminists have made it a point of pride to act like traditional western culture said was unappealing. Hectoring and nagging is a core component of being a girlboss.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 11:29 AM (t0Rmr)

191 Yeah, ABC, CBS, NBC should have their licenses pulled. F 'em.

Posted by: CONgress at February 04, 2025 11:29 AM (0eaVi)

192 People complaining about Musk running things on his own sure were fucking silent about Biden.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 11:29 AM (64qRd)

193 At one time the Nazis were thinking about deporting all the European Jews to Madagascar.

Maybe the Palestinians would like that option.

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We object!
Posted by: Madagascar's unique and diverse wildlife at February 04, 2025 11:27 AM (D0HYP)

You know, an enterprising fellow might get into the lemur sized chastity belt business, and make a killing.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 11:29 AM (Hnlcj)

194 Leslie Stahl was a 1 back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg

So were Jessica Savitch, Connie Chung, and Kelly O'Donnell. I'm beginning to suspect they weren't chosen ENTIRELY for their journalistic chops.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (xCA6C)

195 Posted by: Zombie Jessica Savitch

Now SHE was a hottie.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (77rzZ)

196 Politico, Chao resigns from Transportation Department, citing ‘traumatic,’ ‘avoidable’ Capitol riot
Elaine Chao is the first of what had been a rumored wave of Cabinet secretaries who were reportedly discussing stepping aside in protest. 01/07/2021
Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 04, 2025 11:21 AM (NFX2v)

===

A RINO backstabber??

Say it ain't so!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (RIvkX)
***

But!!! But!!! Insurrection!!!
So. Just when the country needed leadership And stability out of DC, she bailed.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (W/lyH)

197 Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at February 04, 2025 11:25 AM (DJ7uY)

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1. The American public Do. Not. Care. About. Any. Of. This. Inside baseball bullshit from DC actually makes an impression on the larger public once a generation, if that. It's gotten harder with the 24 hour news cycle and every story being sold as the new Watergate.

2. Philomena Cunk > Cenk Unger
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:26 AM (GBKbO)
___________

As to #1, I think this is 99% about fundraising and "hey look at me, I'm still here" trying-too-hard narcissism.

2. Skunk >> Cenk Unger

Oddly enough, Cenk was saying some not-insane things in the wake of Trump's thundercocking of the entire Democrap existence in November. I guess that was short-lived.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

198 173 Leslie Stahl was a 1 back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg

So was Taylor Lorenz, somewhere around the Mayflower Compact.
Posted by: Stu Podaso

Cleopatra and Bathsheba were hotties, too. What's your point?

Posted by: Hysterical Facts at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (G5+As)

199 Putin on the European Union:

In an interview with Russia Today, Putin stated “Nothing has changed. They were happy to carry out any order from Washington under Biden.”

“They just don’t like Trump,” he continued, adding “They forgot him actively, really interfered in political life, in the election process of the United States. And then they were confused when Trump suddenly won.”

Putin further declares that the political elite in Europe “mentally liked Biden more,”

“But Trump has better ideas about what is good, what is bad, including in gender policy, in some other issues, they kind of don’t like it,” the Russian president asserted.

“But I assure you, Trump with his character, persistence, he will restore order pretty quickly,” Putin stated, adding “And all of them, you’ll see, it will happen quickly, soon, all of them will stand at the master’s feet and gently wag their tails.”

Posted by: Wowzers at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (IcDn5)

200 Nothing lasts forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

On a James Bond kick now?

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (7Hjh9)

201 Musk is simply pointing out agencies that are defying our constitutional order, subvert every branch of government and have wasted billions of our tax dollars, often illegally, on fraud, abuse and profligate political causes.

I’m a little confused why that’s controversial.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (3UP5d)

202 hat was Dateline NBC
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:28 AM (7Hjh9)

I think that was the Ford Truck gas tank explosion they rigged though they could have also done a segment on SUV rollovers.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (IOGah)

203 As part of the libel case, Trump has just announced 60 Minutes will be cut to 47 Minutes.
Posted by: TV Guide at February 04, 2025

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It's only about that now. 47 of show, 11 of commercials, 2 of intro and outro, done.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (J2vNu)

204 He was a hobby woodworker. The monologue I remember was him talking about showing somebody a large slab of some kind of wood. The person asked what he was going to make out of it. Andy replied "There's nothing I could make out of it that would be more beautiful than what it is right now." I can relate. I have seen $3K slabs that -- if I could afford it -- I would sand, oil, and hang on the wall.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 04, 2025 11:28 AM (/y8xj)

The price of wood is frigging depressing.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (VwHCD)

205 Senate committee advances Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nomination to be health secretary...(WTOP)

All Rs were yeses, all Ds were nos...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (exHjb)

206 Multi-billion dollar Obama "renewable" energy project being scrapped, with resulting net environmental damage galore:

https://tinyurl.com/9pmd6v8z
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 04, 2025 11:10 AM

Whitmer is still developing those future problems in my state. In the fall, a hiker took a last video of a beautiful, open tract of land that was going to be covered by solar panels in The Thumb. Acres of state forest were cleared for another future brownfield in the Grayling-Gaylord area.

The future doesn't matter if the right pockets are filled today.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (fxCK2)

207 As much I learned about the media and the Democrats because of Rathergate, I also learned about the GOPe too.

Bush should have gone to the mattresses over Rathergate. But he didn’t and the only reason that makes any sense is that tge Uniparty protects its own and in the end everything is Kabuki theater.

Posted by: Eric at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (a2F+C)

208 >>>NFL commissioner says league will keep DEI policies

Oooo, does that mean that, once again, a Strong, Black Woman will be singing the Black National Anthem prior to kickoff at the Super Bowl?

Posted by: one hour sober at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (Y1sOo)

209 Cleopatra and Bathsheba were hotties, too. What's your point?

Those bitches would always steal the hot guys I was trying to flirt with

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at February 04, 2025 11:32 AM (t0Rmr)

210 I’ll bet Trump is glad to have a useful VP this time around.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 04, 2025 11:29 AM (jbnUc)

Pence was useful... and I'm sure the globalists paid him well for his efforts.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 11:32 AM (ExV1e)

211 I bet there are several islands the Palestinians could be isolated on.

Getting it together for them!

Posted by: Anak Krakatau at February 04, 2025 11:32 AM (w9Wax)

212 Cenk hates the Democrats like a mirror image of our hate for Republicans.

He thinks that they aren't commie enough.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 11:32 AM (aD39U)

213 197 As to #1, I think this is 99% about fundraising and "hey look at me, I'm still here" trying-too-hard narcissism.

2. Skunk >> Cenk Unger

Oddly enough, Cenk was saying some not-insane things in the wake of Trump's thundercocking of the entire Democrap existence in November. I guess that was short-lived.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (iFTx/)

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Oh, that's definitely true. All of this is about fundraising, with a background of "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"

Acting like Democrat's rhetoric is actual news is folly. Their panic is news. Their nonsense appeals to whatever they're asking for is not.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

214 New alert just popped up on my phone.

Trump is planning on attending the Super Bowl.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at February 04, 2025 11:32 AM (4tmpE)

215 Horse Stall >>> Toilet Stall >>> Leslie Stahl

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 04, 2025 11:32 AM (1FWWQ)

216 200 Nothing lasts forever.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:29 AM (GBKbO)

On a James Bond kick now?
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (7Hjh9)

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Roger Corman has made me consider the finiteness of life.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)

217 Putin gets it… we have some here who hate him, but he gets some things a hell of a lot more than some of our “ betters”…

Posted by: tubal at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (PCK5/)

218 94
‘ Where's that island where they ate Rockefeller's kid?’

Hahahaha!!!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (jbnUc)

219 The price of wood is frigging depressing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (VwHCD)
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Yeah, I'm not looking forward to getting the oak needed for our new bed frame. Still cheaper than buying a bed frame and it will be what we want. So, there's that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (tT6L1)

220 Thx MisHum good post. Mitch will be given a thumbs up for one thing , keeping Garland off the SC. He got Trump's judges confirmed, but he did the same for Barky and the Veg

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (U/Wlk)

221 Leslie Stahl is a whore.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at February 04, 2025 11:20 AM

===

I did enjoy watching Leslie Stall ask whether hookers are orally pleasured by their Johns.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 11:26 AM

Join us Leslie. We'll leave the ~~beacon~~ light on.

Posted by: Sister Zoot, on behalf of the ladies of Castle Anthrax at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (a3Q+t)

222 DOGE-OK: Gov. Stitt orders creation of Division of Government Efficiency
https://shorturl.at/ffdec
2 News Oklahoma

I hope DeathSantis and Abbott do something similar and start a trend.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (Vqx30)

223 Senate committee advances Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nomination to be health secretary...(WTOP)

All Rs were yeses, all Ds were nos...

Remember one complaint about Trump was that he was going to pick a cabinet full of flunkies.

He's nominated two president candidates from the other party and those are the two the left are most trying to sink...

Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (t0Rmr)

224 Bondi floor vote will happen today.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (MGB5H)

225 The price of wood is frigging depressing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (VwHCD)

Man you said a mouthful.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (7Hjh9)

226 223 Remember one complaint about Trump was that he was going to pick a cabinet full of flunkies.

He's nominated two president candidates from the other party and those are the two the left are most trying to sink...
Posted by: Nancy Pelosi at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (t0Rmr)

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I can't wait until his sister is on SCOTUS.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

227 Leslie Stahl was a 1 back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg

Deborah Norville.
Laurie Dhue.

Posted by: Doof at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (gEQYA)

228 I would do a floor vote with Bondi.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (7Hjh9)

229 Also time to pull the plug on the racist fascists in Johannesburg and Pretoria.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (RIvkX)

230 225 The price of everything depresses me.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (6CsVH)

231 the turtle is a loser and maybe he will stroke out soon. he already has one foot in the hole so maybe he can go over the side lol

Posted by: yumper at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (phkng)

232 This is why no one has filed suit to stop Trump's personnel actions - Alito's majority opinion on the Collins v Yellen case (SCOTUS Case No. 19-422), five years ago, said:

"But as we explained last Term, the Constitution prohibits
even “modest restrictions” on the President’s power to re-
move the head of an agency with a single top officer. Seila
Law, supra, at ___ (slip op., at 26) (internal quotation marks
omitted). The President must be able to remove not just
officers who disobey his commands but also those he finds
“negligent and inefficient,” Myers, 272 U. S., at 135, those
who exercise their discretion in a way that is not “intelli-
gen[t] or wis[e],” ibid., those who have “different views of
policy,” id., at 131, those who come “from a competing polit-
ical party who is dead set against [the President’s] agenda,”
Seila Law, supra, at ___ (slip op., at 24) (emphasis deleted),
and those in whom he has simply lost confidence, Myers,
supra, at 124."

Posted by: Gref at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (aBgBM)

233
The price of wood is frigging depressing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division

Have you priced Norwegian Wood lately?

Posted by: Zombie John Lennon at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (G5+As)

234 The price of wood is frigging depressing.

Well, it doesn't just grow on trees, ya know. Oh, wait...

Posted by: Oddbob at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (/y8xj)

235 Bondi floor vote will happen today.
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (MGB5H)

Let the Bondi hit the floor
Let the Bondi hit the floor

Posted by: Doof at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (gEQYA)

236 So were Jessica Savitch, Connie Chung, and Kelly O'Donnell. I'm beginning to suspect they weren't chosen ENTIRELY for their journalistic chops.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (xCA6C)

News reader. Pretty much every other country on Earth knows what time it is. We're the ones who pretend that these assholes are "breaking stories".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 11:35 AM (ExV1e)

237 Musk is simply pointing out agencies that are defying our constitutional order, subvert every branch of government and have wasted billions of our tax dollars, often illegally, on fraud, abuse and profligate political causes.

I’m a little confused why that’s controversial.

The Dems are trying desperately to make it sound like Elon is a rogue agent with unconstitutional powers. Trump made it very clear though; Elon can recommend, but it's Trump that makes the decision. Elon isn't stupid. He understands this.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2025 11:35 AM (xCA6C)

238 Leslie Stahl was a 1 back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg

Deborah Norville.
Laurie Dhue.

Posted by: Doof

Dorothy Fuldheim.

What the hell am I saying!!

Posted by: Tonypete at February 04, 2025 11:35 AM (WXNFJ)

239 Leslie Stahl was a 1 back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg

Deborah Norville.
Laurie Dhue.

Posted by: Doof at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (gEQYA)
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Gross. Gross. And Gross.

Paula Zahn.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2025 11:35 AM (RIvkX)

240 The price of wood is frigging depressing.

This is kind of odd. The country is full of trees. Hell I have a backyard full of them. They are "renewable" and yet the cheap stuff is made of plastic/oil and the expensive stuff is made of trees.

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 11:35 AM (t0Rmr)

241 Palestinians to Indonesia - Witkoff floated that idea a week ago. I doubt very much it could happen.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 11:03 AM (Md44Z)

Brilliant idea. Indonesia has a vast population, mostly muslim, also mostly "peacable muslims". They could readily absorb a couple of million Arab muslims, scatttered in small batches throughout the many islands. Just let the palis know they are there on sufferance. Fuck up, and the muslim government there can kill them, and the wide world won't give a shit.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2025 11:35 AM (8zz6B)

242 Worry about Bondi. She was completely anti 2A after Parkland. I doubt she’s gonna reel in the ATF and DoJ on 2A. Even GOA is skeptical. Trump not living up to his “first week” promise has a lot of people worried

Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 11:36 AM (3UP5d)

243 I can't wait until his sister is on SCOTUS.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)

LOL...I remember that ...

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at February 04, 2025 11:36 AM (DJ7uY)

244 DOGE-OK: Gov. Stitt orders creation of Division of Government Efficiency
https://shorturl.at/ffdec
2 News Oklahoma

I hope DeathSantis and Abbott do something similar and start a trend.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (Vqx30)

Stitt really has been pretty fantastic. Really hope he goes after that turncoat ginger when his term is up.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:36 AM (MGB5H)

245 Cleopatra and Bathsheba were hotties, too. What's your point?
Posted by: Hysterical Facts at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (G5+As)

Eve was teh hot too! Of course, there was nobody else to compare her to.

Posted by: Adam at February 04, 2025 11:36 AM (PiwSw)

246 Deborah Norville.
Laurie Dhue.

Posted by: Doof

I'd forgotten about Deborah Norville. Yes, a definite 1.

Also, Soledad O'Brian.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

247 So were Jessica Savitch, Connie Chung, and Kelly O'Donnell. I'm beginning to suspect they weren't chosen ENTIRELY for their journalistic chops.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (xCA6C)

Back in the day, during the Clinton scandals, Chris Mathews had Norah O'Donnell come on his show. She looked like she was about 17 at the time, and of course she had nothing of any value to add to the discussion.

It was patently obvious at the time, the only reason she was getting on air is because she had these bambi eyes, rosy cheeks, and could probably suck Mathews' tired old limp cock back to life, just before air time.

Or maybe during.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 11:36 AM (aOLxn)

248 Bush should have gone to the mattresses over Rathergate. But he didn’t and the only reason that makes any sense is that tge Uniparty protects its own and in the end everything is Kabuki theater.
---------------
Never forget the close friendship between Averell Harriman (FDR's legs) and Prescott Bush. They were pals at Harvard, WWI US Army and throughout their lives. Kind of hard to miss that in all Bush's downstream.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 11:37 AM (Wg6v7)

249 When are they voting on Kash Patel?

Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at February 04, 2025 11:37 AM (DJ7uY)

250 I have to say, your taste in newsbabes is highly suspect.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2025 11:37 AM (RIvkX)

251 Trump is planning on attending the Super Bowl.
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Can he still get tickets?

Posted by: Cosda at February 04, 2025 11:37 AM (RtvOB)

252 will make fine patch material for cleaning your weapons.
Posted by: Grump928(C
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Good point. Now have to find scissors.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 04, 2025 11:37 AM (4780s)

253 Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at January 31, 2025 05:04 PM

Is this the window where I can cash my tickets?

Today's sidebar: Autism Capital @AutismCapital

NEW: Senator Joni Ernst said that USAID employees claimed they lived in Washington DC to collect higher salaries and expense write offs but actually lives in other locations. This was done with the full supervision and acceptance of their bosses at these Federal agencies.

Posted by: Chuck C at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (D0HYP)

I saw this. I know the government sucks - I worked for it for 17 years before being fired in 2024 for refusing to target particular groups.

I can't even imagine how corrupt you have to be to approve something like that all the way to the top of the ladder, at every stop on the way up.

Absolutely mind boggling. Fire everyone, charge most of them, imprison many.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at February 04, 2025 11:38 AM (rUU8O)

254 When are they voting on Kash Patel?
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at February 04, 2025 11:37 AM (DJ7uY)

Committee vote should be today or tomorrow.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:38 AM (MGB5H)

255 Leslie Stahl was a 1 back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg

Deborah Norville.
Laurie Dhue.

Posted by: Doof at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (gEQYA)
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Gross. Gross. And Gross.

Paula Zahn.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2025 11:35 AM

No love for me?

Posted by: Perky Katie Couric's Colon at February 04, 2025 11:38 AM (aD39U)

256 Jessica Savitch was train wreck, hottie but drug addiction

Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2025 11:38 AM (fwDg9)

257 Watch The Godfather again last night. Apollonia's tits are very interesting. Always enjoy watching Mo Green get popped.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 11:38 AM (Wg6v7)

258 246 Deborah Norville.
Laurie Dhue.

Posted by: Doof

I'd forgotten about Deborah Norville. Yes, a definite 1.

Also, Soledad O'Brian.

everyone knows who the *real* hotness in the news business is

Posted by: jeanne moos at February 04, 2025 11:38 AM (oY6Yp)

259 >>> 159
==
Congress hasn't passed a budget for over a third of your life. Congress hasn't taken responsibility for the rules we live under, the wars we fight, of the health and security of the nation.

Fuck all the way off.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 11:25 AM (ExV1e)

I really hope OrangeManBad has told the congresscritters to stick any more "continuing resolutions" up they/them asses.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2025 11:38 AM (Vqx30)

260 Well...Emilia Perez is mostly just boring. And overbearing. And stupid.

13 nominations, baby!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

261 Even S. E. Cupp looked fine in a short plaid skirt once.

Posted by: CPAC 2009 at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (G5+As)

262 It was patently obvious at the time, the only reason she was getting on air is because she had these bambi eyes, rosy cheeks, and could probably suck Mathews' tired old limp cock back to life, just before air time.

Or maybe during.
Posted by: BurtTC

Chris' wife Kathleen was also a hottie back in the day. Local news anchor in DC.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (77rzZ)

263 Well...Emilia Perez is mostly just boring. And overbearing. And stupid.

13 nominations, baby!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

You sat through that?!

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (MGB5H)

264 225 The price of everything depresses me.
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I am frequently told that you can get BJs for only $20, either here or in town.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (ExV1e)

265 The price of wood is frigging depressing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (VwHCD)
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Yeah, I'm not looking forward to getting the oak needed for our new bed frame. Still cheaper than buying a bed frame and it will be what we want. So, there's that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (tT6L1)

Oak isn't that bad. Yeah, its bad enough, but not mahogany, or cherry, or walnut bad. I have some epic projects I want to do here, and the wood cost is staggering.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (VwHCD)

266 I'd forgotten about Deborah Norville. Yes, a definite 1.

Ditto. She's now 66. How is that possible when I'm still a youthful 29?

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (xCA6C)

267 263 You sat through that?!
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (MGB5H)

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Not worth it!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

268 Putin:
“But I assure you, Trump with his character, persistence, he will restore order pretty quickly,” Putin stated, adding “And all of them, you’ll see, it will happen quickly, soon, all of them will stand at the master’s feet and gently wag their tails.”
Posted by: Wowzers at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (IcDn5)

DaFuq is that guy trying to do, stiffen European resolve against Trump? Because that's how you do it. You call them lap dogs.
Too funny at first read though.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 04, 2025 11:40 AM (FCbAQ)

269 Emergency room doctors carry a picture of me as the antidote for dudes coming in with a four-hour boner.

Posted by: Zombie Helen Thomas at February 04, 2025 11:40 AM (Y1sOo)

270 Bush should have gone to the mattresses over Rathergate.

[ DanaCarveyParodyVoice ]

"Wouldn't be prudent."

[ /DanaCarveyParodyVoice ]

Yeah I know, different Bush. But still applicable.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 04, 2025 11:40 AM (/y8xj)

271 Worry about Bondi. She was completely anti 2A after Parkland. I doubt she’s gonna reel in the ATF and DoJ on 2A. Even GOA is skeptical. Trump not living up to his “first week” promise has a lot of people worried
Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 11:36 AM

Let's wait until she is confirmed to set our hair on fire.

Don't borrow trouble.

Posted by: Perky Katie Couric's Colon at February 04, 2025 11:40 AM (aD39U)

272 dammit

Posted by: Grump928(C) at February 04, 2025 11:41 AM (aD39U)

273 Not worth it!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

Well I coulda told you that!

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:41 AM (MGB5H)

274 134
‘ he would be primaried away, which we should do for Mr Inflation Reduction Act anyway.’
Ha! We still can.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 04, 2025 11:41 AM (jbnUc)

275 My brothers had a thing for Jane Pauley. I never got it, myself.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 11:41 AM (77rzZ)

276 196. A RINO backstabber??

Say it ain't so!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2025 11:24 AM (RIvkX)
***

But!!! But!!! Insurrection!!!
So. Just when the country needed leadership And stability out of DC, she bailed.
Posted by: Diogenes

He's a model of good husband and always listens to his wife. 😬😉

Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 04, 2025 11:41 AM (NFX2v)

277 All these news ladies seemed too uptight until FNC came along, then they were less uptight.

Kayleigh McEnany as a guest on Red Eye was a revelation in like 2011. I remember when I was like one of 25 people who even knew who she was. An absolute bombshell and she was spitting righteous truth bars.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:41 AM (7Hjh9)

278 “...And all of them, you’ll see, it will happen quickly, soon, all of them will stand at the master’s feet and gently wag their tails.”
Posted by: Wowzers at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (IcDn5)

Ooo, I like this quote. Well done, Putin.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at February 04, 2025 11:41 AM (k9OZB)

279 About 20,000 federal workers have accepted the "buyout" offer put forward by the Trump administration last week, a senior administration official tells Axios. Why it matters: It's a significant number of people — about 1% of the federal workforce — but still substantially less than the White House's target of 5% to 10%.

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:41 AM (RHGPo)

280 Well...Emilia Perez is mostly just boring. And overbearing. And stupid.

13 nominations, baby!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

I watched the 5 minute Drinker summary. He tells the whole story.

Got it. That was enough.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 11:42 AM (aOLxn)

281 DaFuq is that guy trying to do, stiffen European resolve against Trump? Because that's how you do it. You call them lap dogs.
Too funny at first read though.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 04, 2025 11:40 AM (FCbAQ)

Calling balls and strikes and he is correct.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:42 AM (7Hjh9)

282 Oak isn't that bad. Yeah, its bad enough, but not mahogany, or cherry, or walnut bad. I have some epic projects I want to do here, and the wood cost is staggering.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (VwHCD)
---------------

I'll also be looking at those woods, too. However, smaller projects so maybe the screaming will be somewhat less.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 04, 2025 11:42 AM (tT6L1)

283 Eve was teh hot too! Of course, there was nobody else to compare her to.
Posted by: Adam at February 04, 2025

***
Forgot about me?

Posted by: Lilith at February 04, 2025 11:42 AM (J2vNu)

284 Multi-billion dollar Obama "renewable" energy project being scrapped, with resulting net environmental damage galore:

https://tinyurl.com/9pmd6v8z
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 04, 2025 11:10 AM (Ti0Hb)

I doubt scrapping the Ivanpah plant will cause environmental damage. Most of the damage was cause by building it, and operating it. Torn down, and trucked away, the desert will slowly rejuvenate. I wonder if those thousands of mirrors could have salvage value as roofing or siding? What is the mirror backing composed of?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2025 11:43 AM (8zz6B)

285 "-KY Republican primary voters who gave him a 75 point victory in 2020"

Nah.

Those numbers are as true as the 82 million for pResident Penetrating Fingers in the same year. Same thing happens in Minnesota, just like 100 Backseat Ballots Al Franken...so who paid-how much to Norm Coleman to make him just accept it.

Inquiring minds and all that...

Posted by: Ju at February 04, 2025 11:43 AM (aTmM/)

286 I had a crush on Kennedy when she was on MTV. I think she's libertarian now, so her stock hasn't fallen for me.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 11:43 AM (kJuzF)

287
Release of the Epstein info must be getting close; Bill Gates now claiming he was blackmailed and victimized by him.

Posted by: Auspex at February 04, 2025 11:43 AM (j4U/Z)

288 Ok time to go back out to the shop and cut tool shaped holes in foam.

Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:43 AM (MGB5H)

289 This is weird .. the Los Angeles Times reports ...

Why waving the Mexican flag at immigration rallies isn’t wrong

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:43 AM (RHGPo)

290 I had a crush on Kennedy when she was on MTV. I think she's libertarian now, so her stock hasn't fallen for me.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

She was a guest on G. Gordon Liddy's radio show in the 90s.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

291 I had a crush on Kennedy when she was on MTV. I think she's libertarian now, so her stock hasn't fallen for me.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 11:43 AM (kJuzF)

Martha Quinn. Dang, she was cute.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wish I could Type Good at February 04, 2025 11:44 AM (Ad8y9)

292 I wonder if those thousands of mirrors could have salvage value as roofing or siding?

One could put them on one's car, and when someone cuts you off, frrrrzzzzzzttttt.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2025 11:44 AM (xCA6C)

293 Leslie Stahl was a 1 back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg

Deborah Norville.
Laurie Dhue.

Posted by: Doof at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (gEQYA)
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Gross. Gross. And Gross.

Paula Zahn.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2025 11:35 AM (RIvkX)

=======

Melissa Theuriau

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 11:44 AM (ExV1e)

294 USAID has been pulling their bullshit for so long and without any oversight that I’m sure they got lazy and complacent. They didn’t try to hide anything because they didn’t have to. No one ever looked into them. Until now…

Posted by: Duke Lowell at February 04, 2025 11:44 AM (u73oe)

295 FWIW, Crazy Dan Gryder has a fresh vid up on the Washington air disaster, 14 mins:
youtube.com/watch?v=WfoqvemXozw

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 11:44 AM (6CsVH)

296
Why waving the Mexican flag at immigration rallies isn’t wrong

Can we ask them why it is wrong to fly English flags in England now?

Posted by: 18-1 at February 04, 2025 11:44 AM (t0Rmr)

297 Let's wait until she is confirmed to set our hair on fire.

Don't borrow trouble.
Posted by: Perky Katie Couric's Colon at February 04, 2025 11:40 AM (aD39U)

We only do purity tests.

What I really want to know is whether she made some mean tweets back in the day. Anything homo or trans phobic?

Did she ever wear any Halloween costumes, or make any food dishes that were cultural appropriative?

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 11:44 AM (aOLxn)

298 I had a crush on Kennedy when she was on MTV. I think she's libertarian now, so her stock hasn't fallen for me.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

But for me it was Martha Quinn.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 11:44 AM (77rzZ)

299 Will we ever see the contents of the binder of RussiaGate documents that the FBI never found at Mar A Largo ?

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:45 AM (RHGPo)

300 Leslie Stahl was a 1 back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg

Deborah Norville.
Laurie Dhue.

Posted by: Doof at February 04, 2025 11:34 AM (gEQYA)
====
Gross. Gross. And Gross.

Paula Zahn.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 04, 2025 11:35 AM

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Connie Chung

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 11:45 AM (Vh9CX)

301 267 263 You sat through that?!
Posted by: BruceWayne at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (MGB5H)

======

Not worth it!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 11:39 AM (GBKbO)

I finally sat through Interstellar, so I can be a Nolan completionist. It's definitely not his top tier if you've watched all his stuff, but if you haven't, it would be a wild ride.

He takes notes from Titanic, with making space so realistic and visceral, and notes from himself, which his time weirdness that permeates most of his movies. It's a B for being very original and engaging, but sometimes you're like - nah, Nolan, you did this better before. If it wasn't Nolan, I'd probably give it a B+...

Free on streaming now...pretty timely in some ways, too...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 11:45 AM (exHjb)

302 Why waving the Mexican flag at immigration rallies isn’t wrong

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:43 AM (RHGPo)

How 'bout....stupid?

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2025 11:45 AM (Yj6Os)

303 I remember some Moron here used the sock 'Solodad Obrien's Earpiece' here many years ago.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 04, 2025 11:45 AM (1FWWQ)

304 Melissa Theuriau
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Oh yeah...mmmmmmmmmmmm...

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 11:45 AM (77rzZ)

305 “Freedom” Caucus, also know as the “Fraud” Caucus once again threw a wrench in Republicans plan to pass a budget bill. Of course once again they did it after the entire republican caucus agreed on a bill.

I’m getting a little sick of these clowns.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 11:46 AM (3UP5d)

306 Worry about Bondi. She was completely anti 2A after Parkland. I doubt she’s gonna reel in the ATF and DoJ on 2A.
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Let's wait until she is confirmed to set our hair on fire.

Don't borrow trouble.

Yah. I'm trusting (for now) that she will do the job that Trump put her there to do or get replaced.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 04, 2025 11:46 AM (/y8xj)

307 Speaking of hot chicks, you know the best thing about pron? Not just that the hot chicks take their clothes off, and perform unspeakable sex acts.

No, it's the fact you don't have to sit through them lying to you about the news of the day.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 11:46 AM (aOLxn)

308 Is LA still on fire?

Posted by: Things No One Cares About A Week Later at February 04, 2025 11:46 AM (y7KuV)

309 I am fucked off about Bondi. Hate the choice honestly. Best we can hope for is she falls in line like a good little dog, like Nikki before her and maybe Rubio now.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:47 AM (7Hjh9)

310 >>> 268 Putin:
“But I assure you, Trump with his character, persistence, he will restore order pretty quickly,” Putin stated, adding “And all of them, you’ll see, it will happen quickly, soon, all of them will stand at the master’s feet and gently wag their tails.”
Posted by: Wowzers at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (IcDn5)

DaFuq is that guy trying to do, stiffen European resolve against Trump? Because that's how you do it. You call them lap dogs.
Too funny at first read though.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 04, 2025 11:40 AM (FCbAQ)

Like Castreau and whatsherface in Mexico? ;P

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2025 11:47 AM (Vqx30)

311 Leslie Stahl was a 1 back in the day.
Posted by: Bulg

So were Jessica Savitch, Connie Chung, and Kelly O'Donnell. I'm beginning to suspect they weren't chosen ENTIRELY for their journalistic chops.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 04, 2025 11:30 AM (xCA6C)

I've never cared for Oriental women, but Chung really turned me on back in the day.

There was a Bloom County strip where Opus called her, IIRC, the "sloe-eyed hot mama of the news room."

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 04, 2025 11:47 AM (Q0kLU)

312 Wow....72 and sunny...headed to the patio for another cup and a smoke.

Posted by: BignJames at February 04, 2025 11:47 AM (Yj6Os)

313 Eve was teh hot too! Of course, there was nobody else to compare her to.
____

I wonder if Eve was closer to Christie Brinkley or to the Willendorf Venus statue.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at February 04, 2025 11:47 AM (2r10B)

314 Hopefully these Federal buyouts don't take the money and then are allowed to get another job in a different agency. Because that would be totally expected.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at February 04, 2025 11:48 AM (qUkBO)

315 ngl I'm not all that sanguine about Trump's support of the 2A either.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 11:48 AM (jH5TK)

316 Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 11:46 AM (aOLxn)

What's the difference between the porn actresses and the news whores?

The news.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:48 AM (7Hjh9)

317 Is LA still on fire?
Posted by: Things No One Cares About A Week Later at February 04, 2025 11:46 AM (y7KuV)

I figured they put them out for the Grammys.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 11:48 AM (aOLxn)

318 Koreans, Homosexuals, and Hispanics are severely underrepresented in the nfl. I am glad that Roger Goodell will address that... Oh and Whites too. Whites are WAY WAY underrepresented.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 04, 2025 11:48 AM (1FWWQ)

319 DaFuq is that guy trying to do, stiffen European resolve against Trump? Because that's how you do it. You call them lap dogs.
Too funny at first read though.
Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 04, 2025 11:40 AM (FCbAQ)

Honestly, stiffening EU resolve against Trump is probably something we should hope for. We don't want to work with the EU just to return to business as usual as soon as possible. We want a hard break. Disentangle the US from that mess.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 11:48 AM (ExV1e)

320 And here to castigate a talking head (Margaret Brennan) on ANOTHER CBS news show (Face the Nation):

T. Becket Adams
@BecketAdams
Feb 2
I hadn’t really noticed it until last week, but basically any muted video of her makes me feel like I’m being yelled at for forgetting our anniversary.

Posted by: m at February 04, 2025 11:28 AM (v0TzN)

--------------

Some wag pointed out before the election that Kommie-la had no chance with non-soiboi men because she was a constant reminder of a real or imagined ex-wife (or android?) screeching at you.

"Harcourt. Harcourt Fenton Mudd!

What have you been up to? Nothing good I'm sure ...

What have you been up to? Have you been drinking again you miserable sot ...

What have you been up to? Staying out all night and then giving me some silly story ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 11:49 AM (vAHT7)

321 State DOGEs. I think every state has a state auditor, usually elected, whose very job is to do this shit.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 04, 2025 11:49 AM (4780s)

322 Trump will be fine on guns. Has shown time and again he is going to dance with who brought him.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:49 AM (7Hjh9)

323 I can't even imagine how corrupt you have to be to approve something like that all the way to the top of the ladder, at every stop on the way up.
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This was outright *fraud*, from the employee who submitted the pay claims to the supervisor(s) who approved them. Getting "location pay" for a location that you don't actually work at is fraud, pure and simple.

Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 11:49 AM (azSra)

324 In fact, it might be useful for Trump to fire one of his own appointments as an example for the others. He should have done a lot of that in his first term.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 04, 2025 11:50 AM (/y8xj)

325 >>72 and sunny...headed to the patio for another cup and a smoke.

Jealous. We've got a fresh 8" of snow here and it is going to come down harder for the next 16 hours of so.

Looking at 14-18" at this rate.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2025 11:50 AM (9Q8fk)

326 Whitmer is still developing those future problems in my state. In the fall, a hiker took a last video of a beautiful, open tract of land that was going to be covered by solar panels

Posted by: NaughtyPine

Trees just block the view.

The Witch

Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal at February 04, 2025 11:50 AM (JkCto)

327 “Freedom” Caucus, also know as the “Fraud” Caucus once again threw a wrench in Republicans plan to pass a budget bill. Of course once again they did it after the entire republican caucus agreed on a bill.

I’m getting a little sick of these clowns.
Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 11:46 AM (3UP5d)

Maybe you haven't been paying attention the last few days.

The government wastes money on lots of silly things. These budget bills contain all that silly crap.

The guys who are slowing down this nonsense are the good guys.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 11:50 AM (aOLxn)

328 295 blancolirio's latest is much better IMHO, 16 mins:
youtube.com/watch?v=n9mAUks0krI

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 11:50 AM (6CsVH)

329 Emergency room doctors carry a picture of me as the antidote for dudes coming in with a four-hour boner.

Posted by: Zombie Helen Thomas at February 04, 2025 11:40 AM (Y1sOo)

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Back off, bitch!

Posted by: Janet Yellen at February 04, 2025 11:50 AM (vAHT7)

330 Free on streaming now...pretty timely in some ways, too...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 11:45 AM (exHjb)

Hans Zimmer nailed the music for it. Soundtrack pushes it to an A.

Disclaimer:
IMO. YMMV.

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 04, 2025 11:50 AM (9mfKN)

331 About 20,000 federal workers have accepted the "buyout" offer put forward by the Trump administration last week, a senior administration official tells Axios. Why it matters: It's a significant number of people — about 1% of the federal workforce — but still substantially less than the White House's target of 5% to 10%.
Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:41 AM (RHGPo)

Lot of people gonna be filled with regret when the pink slips start flying.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 11:51 AM (ExV1e)

332
Good morning! Within 3 minutes of waking up, I learned:

- Trump EO to end the DOE
- Trump sending American and illegal alien criminals to Gitmo
- Bobby getting passed out of committee
- wasn't there something else? whatevs, I'm sure it's coming.

No ranting here! It's a great day.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 04, 2025 11:51 AM (W0D6g)

333 garrett got 8 inches last night

Posted by: AoS comment section Cliff's Notes at February 04, 2025 11:51 AM (Y1sOo)

334 Many TV ladies got to the top by their looks. What about men? Life isn't fair. Mark Levin has succeeded on TV and radio, yet has neither the face for TV, nor the voice for radio.

Lorne Greene had a radio voice. George Fenneman had a radio voice. William Conrad had a radio voice. Mark Levin is just....

Posted by: ....Ol' Yeller! at February 04, 2025 11:51 AM (G5+As)

335 "Soledad Obrien" Yeah, she was pretty.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 11:52 AM (6CsVH)

336 The price of wood is frigging depressing.

Don't I know it!

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at February 04, 2025 11:52 AM (Q0kLU)

337 Emergency room doctors carry a picture of me as the antidote for dudes coming in with a four-hour boner.

Posted by: Zombie Helen Thomas at February 04, 2025 11:40 AM (Y1sOo)

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Back off, bitch!
Posted by: Janet Yellen at February 04, 2025 11:50 AM (vAHT7)

***

Heh...

Posted by: Rosa DeLauro at February 04, 2025 11:53 AM (1FWWQ)

338 Cenk Unger is convinced the American people are going to turn on Musk cox 'he is moving too fast and breaking things'...yeah, that's why we voted for Trump and by extension, DOGE. To work fast. Did the libtards really think Musk was going to dawdle and come out with a stupid fucking report no one will read in 3 years?
Posted by: IC - Cope Harder, Liberals at February 04, 2025 11:25 AM (DJ7uY)

Chunk is a doughy grease-sweating loud mouthed midwit racist Jew-hating commie fuck who believes decibel level and snotty condescension win all arguments.

Posted by: Fuck that guy in particular at February 04, 2025 11:53 AM (URPBf)

339 About 20,000 federal workers have accepted the "buyout" offer put forward by the Trump administration last week, a senior administration official tells Axios. Why it matters: It's a significant number of people — about 1% of the federal workforce — but still substantially less than the White House's target of 5% to 10%.
Posted by: SMOD

Lot of people gonna be filled with regret when the pink slips start flying.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

They're ALL going to be filled with regerts when they find out the private sector expects results.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2025 11:53 AM (VVexz)

340 Martha Quinn. Dang, she was cute.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wish I could Type Good at February 04, 2025 11:44 AM (Ad8y9)

Quite the whiskey-voice on Sirius/XM these days.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2025 11:53 AM (LxER7)

341 Leslie Stahl is a whore.
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner

60 minotaurs>60 Minutes whore

Posted by: haffhowershower at February 04, 2025 11:53 AM (NMT5x)

342 Some of us are old enough to remember the Sunday afternoons of the CBS weekly movie (Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, etc.), kinda tolerate Mrs. Lansbury and her murder mystery but, as soon as you heard that ticking stopwatch?

Too much, TV off, let's see if there's a puzzle or drying paint or something better.

I have never held 60 Minutes an any sort of esteem.

But Will Sasso on MadTV making fun of that cranky old man was funny stuff.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 04, 2025 11:53 AM (qV1YP)

343 72 and sunny...headed to the patio for another cup and a smoke.

Jealous. We've got a fresh 8" of snow here and it is going to come down harder for the next 16 hours of so.

Looking at 14-18" at this rate.
Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2025 11:50 AM (9Q8fk)

I was looking at one of the weather apps on my computer. and saw that the Bighorn mountians in Wyoming has 40 degree temperatures, while the Bighorn basin to the west, and the Buffalo/Sheridan area to the east is in single digits.

It's been a very odd winter.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wish I could Type Good at February 04, 2025 11:53 AM (Ad8y9)

344 268
‘ DaFuq is that guy trying to do, stiffen European resolve against Trump? Because that's how you do it. You call them lap dogs.’

Putin isn’t Trump’s Buddy. He’s screwing with the Europeans for yuks and because he doesn’t like them.
He knows if they stand up to Trump, Trump will give them a harder beatdown.
More yuks for Vlad.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 04, 2025 11:54 AM (jbnUc)

345 334 Many TV ladies got to the top by their looks. What about men? Life isn't fair. Mark Levin has succeeded on TV and radio, yet has neither the face for TV, nor the voice for radio.

Lorne Greene had a radio voice. George Fenneman had a radio voice. William Conrad had a radio voice. Mark Levin is just....
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Levin endeavors to persevere. His voice is annoying.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 11:54 AM (Wg6v7)

346 > The guys who are slowing down this nonsense are the good guys.

They are frauds. The whole caucus negotiates. They agree behind the door. Then they come out and leak or speak to the media as a negotiating tactic.

They are for themselves. They are not for the people.

Make your case behind closed doors. Stick to the deal you made or F off.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 11:54 AM (3UP5d)

347 This was outright *fraud*, from the employee who submitted the pay claims to the supervisor(s) who approved them. Getting "location pay" for a location that you don't actually work at is fraud, pure and simple.

Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 11:49 AM (azSra)

Which is why I asserted it would be nearly impossible to achieve. You have no fewer than four separate people signing off on your locality pay, and that's before you even get to HR or DFAS.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, still gloating at February 04, 2025 11:54 AM (rUU8O)

348 Quite the whiskey-voice on Sirius/XM these days.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2025 11:53 AM (LxER7)

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That's Nina Blackwood.

Martha hasn't been on Sirius for some time. I believe she left to do her own thing.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 11:54 AM (FdjOh)

349 Hans Zimmer nailed the music for it. Soundtrack pushes it to an A.

Disclaimer:
IMO. YMMV.
Posted by: DoublySymmetric at February 04, 2025 11:50 AM (9mfKN)

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LOL. I watched the Honest Trailer about Interstellar and speaker said, "with a score as if Zimmerman fell asleep on the organ."

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 11:55 AM (Vh9CX)

350 Martha Quinn. Dang, she was cute.

None of you bastiches link to "Stuffin' Martha's Muffin?" It's like I don't know you guys.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 04, 2025 11:55 AM (Q0kLU)

351 Yikes, my bad!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2025 11:56 AM (LxER7)

352 Glad to see Will Sasso is still alive and well. We seem to lose a lot of overweight comedians.

Posted by: Fun Fat at February 04, 2025 11:56 AM (G5+As)

353 >>> 339
==
They're ALL going to be filled with regerts when they find out the private sector expects results.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2025 11:53 AM (VVexz)

I do wonder what sort of shit these asshoes will pull before, during and after the transition to real employment.

For starters, I will probably check my credit cards more frequently for the next several months.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2025 11:56 AM (Vqx30)

354

He's a model of good husband and always listens to his wife. 😬😉
Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 04, 2025 11:41 AM (NFX2v)

Yeah, because that usually works out great.

Posted by: Adam. Yes, THAT Adam. at February 04, 2025 11:56 AM (URPBf)

355 As an aside, I know way too fucking much about 80s/early 90s MTV.

Kurt Loder was a bitch.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 11:56 AM (FdjOh)

356 339 About 20,000 federal workers have accepted the "buyout" offer put forward by the Trump administration last week, a senior administration official tells Axios. Why it matters: It's a significant number of people — about 1% of the federal workforce — but still substantially less than the White House's target of 5% to 10%.
Posted by: SMOD

Lot of people gonna be filled with regret when the pink slips start flying.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

They're ALL going to be filled with regerts when they find out the private sector expects results.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 04, 2025 11:53 AM (VVexz)

People always wait til the last minute to decide...I expect that number to go up or a ton more probationaries to get pink slips the day after...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 11:56 AM (exHjb)

357 The NFL approved and have tranny cheerleaders. Why anyone continues to watch I don't understand.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 11:56 AM (IOGah)

358 My daughter (very young at the time) called Mark Levin 'Angry Kermit'.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 04, 2025 11:57 AM (1FWWQ)

359 Moderna Stock Dumps After RFK Advances To Full Senate Vote

Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:57 AM (RHGPo)

360 In fact, it might be useful for Trump to fire one of his own appointments as an example for the others. He should have done a lot of that in his first term.

Posted by: Oddbob at February 04, 2025 11:50 AM (/y8xj)

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He's gonna fire Linda McMahon after she presents a plan to eliminate the Department of Education.

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 11:57 AM (vAHT7)

361 It's going to be hard for Federal "workers" to work a job in the private sector for precisely the same reason it is hard for the long-term unemployed to work a job in the private sector. Sitting around doing nothing all day for years and years does something to you.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at February 04, 2025 11:57 AM (qUkBO)

362 147
‘ Tryna to stay visible for his office run in TX. Though it seems an odd strategy.’

I don’t live in TX. There’s NFW Kinzinger would get elected here. What’s up with TX that this pisspants thinks he has a shot?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at February 04, 2025 11:57 AM (jbnUc)

363
I used to hit Helen Thomas

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 04, 2025 11:58 AM (EFZgU)

364 326 Whitmer is still developing those future problems in my state. In the fall, a hiker took a last video of a beautiful, open tract of land that was going to be covered by solar panels
The Witch
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal

Her Chinese battery plant north of Big Rapids on top of a giant aquifer is totally environmentally cool, too.

Again, forensic audits. The money the state paid to build these is getting filtered back to her.

Posted by: Auspex at February 04, 2025 11:58 AM (j4U/Z)

365 > About 20,000 federal workers have accepted the "buyout" offer put forward by the Trump administration last week, a senior administration official tells Axios. Why it matters: It's a significant number of people — about 1% of the federal workforce — but still substantially less than the White House's target of 5% to 10%.
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20K out of 2+ million is a drop in the bucket. Add in the off-ledger "contractors" who are really federal workers in everything but title and 20K isn't even 1%.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2025 11:58 AM (Q4IgG)

366 I think that was the Ford Truck gas tank explosion they rigged though they could have also done a segment on SUV rollovers.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (IOGah)

Chevy pickup gas tanks. SUV rollovers was Ford Explorers with Firestone radial tires.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2025 11:58 AM (8zz6B)

367 "My daughter (very young at the time) called Mark Levin 'Angry Kermit'."

The broadcasters save money running his show, because they can turn the transmitter power way down, save $.

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368 As an aside, I know way too fucking much about 80s/early 90s MTV.

Kurt Loder was a bitch.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 11:56 AM (FdjOh)

Always remind me of a guy who would talk about deep deep tracks.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 11:58 AM (IOGah)

369 My daughter (very young at the time) called Mark Levin 'Angry Kermit'.

Posted by: Life of Wryly at February 04, 2025 11:57 AM (1FWWQ)

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Heh.

That would make Ana Navarro 'Angry Miss Piggy.'

Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 11:58 AM (vAHT7)

370 State DOGEs. I think every state has a state auditor, usually elected, whose very job is to do this shit.

MA actually has an honest auditor, Diane DiZoglio. She's Dem, but she actually is a bulldog about going after waste and graft.

Naturally, the Dems and RINOs in this state utterly despise her and do everything in their power to block her.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 04, 2025 11:59 AM (Q0kLU)

371
He's gonna fire Linda McMahon after she presents a plan to eliminate the Department of Education.
Posted by: ShainS -- GONGOs (Government-Organized NGOs) were Coyotes for Criminal Cartels at February 04, 2025 11:57 AM (vAHT7)
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Heh, maybe Linda told PDT, "I don't want a career in government or even 1 year" and President Trump responded with, "Have a I got the perfect job for you!"

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 04, 2025 11:59 AM (tT6L1)

372 The price of wood is frigging depressing.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 04, 2025 11:31 AM (VwHCD)

Question for you: fallen oak tree, maybe two feet at the butt. Worth cutting obliquely into slabs, or not?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2025 11:59 AM (8zz6B)

373 They are frauds. The whole caucus negotiates. They agree behind the door. Then they come out and leak or speak to the media as a negotiating tactic.

They are for themselves. They are not for the people.

Make your case behind closed doors. Stick to the deal you made or F off.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 04, 2025 11:54 AM (3UP5d)

Sorry, you're just wrong.

The days of making deals behind closed doors are over.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 11:59 AM (2u02e)

374 328 295 blancolirio's latest is much better IMHO, 16 mins:
youtube.com/watch?v=n9mAUks0krI

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 11:50 AM (6CsVH)

PJ Media has a story on a couple of MWAA employees getting arrested, possibly for leaking airport video of the crash:

https://tinyurl.com/4c3rrc9h

See the CNN video at the link. It's very clear, from two angles, and it looks pretty bad.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 04, 2025 11:59 AM (wtvvX)

375 lol Kinziger recently moved to Houston and said he would love to run against Ted Cruz. Cruz isn’t up for election again until 2030.

Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 12:00 PM (Md44Z)

376 >>I was looking at one of the weather apps on my computer. and saw that the Bighorn mountians in Wyoming has 40 degree temperatures, while the Bighorn basin to the west, and the Buffalo/Sheridan area to the east is in single digits.

We are getting a typical Winter for the conditions:

When the jet stream stays east of the Divide, we get late snows and no deep freeze.
Barely had a week of temps at or below 0.
And we usually get 10 days to 2 weeks of -10 or below.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2025 12:00 PM (9Q8fk)

377 At the current rate there will be more people working on CBS teh FBIs than in the Hoover building.

Posted by: DaveA at February 04, 2025 12:00 PM (FhXTo)

378 354. Yeah, because that usually works out great.
Posted by: Adam. Yes, THAT Adam.

Touche!

Posted by: L - No nic, another day at February 04, 2025 12:00 PM (NFX2v)

379 20K out of 2+ million is a drop in the bucket. Add in the off-ledger "contractors" who are really federal workers in everything but title and 20K isn't even 1%.
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I see it differently, 1% of Fed Workers took the deal in the first week of Honey Badger's reign. He has a four year deal, you know?

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 12:01 PM (Wg6v7)

380 Some of us are old enough to remember the Sunday afternoons of the CBS weekly movie (Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, etc.),
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And some are old enough to remember Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 12:01 PM (G0vdT)

381 Chevy pickup gas tanks. SUV rollovers was Ford Explorers with Firestone radial tires.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2025 11:58 AM (8zz6B)

yes GM trucks. Thanks for the correction.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 12:01 PM (IOGah)

382
I hope DeathSantis and Abbott do something similar and start a trend.
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2025 11:33 AM (Vqx30)

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DeathSantis has his own DOGE agency: his administration. Abbott could probably use someone to ride around on a horse and whip some sheriffs and mayors, however.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 04, 2025 12:01 PM (W0D6g)

383 Mitch, the Senator from Ukraine.

Posted by: Brad at February 04, 2025 12:01 PM (Vrdez)

384 359 Moderna Stock Dumps After RFK Advances To Full Senate Vote
Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:57 AM (RHGPo)

This alone is worth it. Fuck BigPharma.

Posted by: Stick it to them for a change at February 04, 2025 12:01 PM (URPBf)

385 372 We got tons of windfallen trunks around here after last year's derecho.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 12:01 PM (6CsVH)

386 375 lol Kinziger recently moved to Houston and said he would love to run against Ted Cruz. Cruz isn’t up for election again until 2030.
Posted by: Tom Servo at February 04, 2025 12:00 PM (Md44Z)

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Running against Cruz is a great way to graft off of Hollywood.

Dude's gonna get rich.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)

387 Moderna Stock Dumps After RFK Advances To Full Senate Vote
Posted by: SMOD at February 04, 2025 11:57 AM (RHGPo)

I'll start cheering when the execs are jumping out the windows.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 12:01 PM (2u02e)

388 357 The NFL approved and have tranny cheerleaders. Why anyone continues to watch I don't understand.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth

The Stalinist messages in the end zones and on helmets aren't to your liking?

Take a knee, comrade.

Even the sports commentators are beginning to call it fixed.

Posted by: Auspex at February 04, 2025 12:01 PM (j4U/Z)

389 Putin fears no one but note he is not posturing against Trump.

Also his words about how Trump handled getting shot rang in earnest even if he wasn't being so.

Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 12:02 PM (7Hjh9)

390 60 minutes was always Leftist propaganda. Always was. I picked up on early and didn't pay it any attention.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 04, 2025 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

391 "getting arrested, possibly for leaking airport video of the crash:"

That sucks.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 12:02 PM (6CsVH)

392 The NFL approved and have tranny cheerleaders. Why anyone continues to watch I don't understand.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 11:56 AM (IOGah)

People are bored and stupid and it fills the gaps in their empty lives.

Posted by: The NFL Is Hot Garbage at February 04, 2025 12:02 PM (y7KuV)

393 And some are old enough to remember Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
Posted by: WisRich

Oh, I loved that show as a kid. 7 PM on Sundays.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

394 374 328 295 blancolirio's latest is much better IMHO, 16 mins:
youtube.com/watch?v=n9mAUks0krI

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 11:50 AM (6CsVH)

PJ Media has a story on a couple of MWAA employees getting arrested, possibly for leaking airport video of the crash:

https://tinyurl.com/4c3rrc9h

See the CNN video at the link. It's very clear, from two angles, and it looks pretty bad.
Posted by: Tex Lovera at February 04, 2025 11:59 AM (wtvvX)

Yeah, I watched it this morning - the copter literally keeps rising into the plane...or it's what it looked like...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 12:02 PM (exHjb)

395 Bring back the Headbanger's Ball. Make America Metal Again!

Posted by: Josephistan at February 04, 2025 12:02 PM (KEWDW)

396 McConnell is now pretty much an extinct volcano, and the bitterness of his uselessness has entered his soul.

Posted by: Paco at February 04, 2025 12:03 PM (mADJX)

397 Chevy pickup gas tanks. SUV rollovers was Ford Explorers with Firestone radial tires.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2025 11:58 AM (8zz6B)

yes GM trucks. Thanks for the correction.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 12:01 PM (IOGah)

Was it the Suzuki Samurai that had an actual rollover problem or was that another sensationalist media piece? Been a long time...

Posted by: Rollover with honor at February 04, 2025 12:03 PM (URPBf)

398 Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2025 12:00 PM (9Q8fk)

Heading to Idaho on Thursday. Looks like the weather will cooperate all the way up. Fingers crossed.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Wish I could Type Good at February 04, 2025 12:03 PM (Ad8y9)

399
Whitmer is still developing those future problems in my state. In the fall, a hiker took a last video of a beautiful, open tract of land that was going to be covered by solar panels
The Witch
Posted by: Steve_in_SoCal

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Is she going to be able to do it without the wind funding that Trump has cut? Or did she grab that cash during the Biden administration? A bunch of those programs are doomed now.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 04, 2025 12:04 PM (W0D6g)

400 >>Heading to Idaho on Thursday. Looks like the weather will cooperate all the way up. Fingers crossed.

Snow should be done falling by then. Hopefully you are headed up for some skiing!
Conditions will be prime.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2025 12:04 PM (9Q8fk)

401 People are bored and stupid and it fills the gaps in their empty lives.

Masturbation is out now?

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 04, 2025 12:04 PM (Q0kLU)

402 380 Some of us are old enough to remember the Sunday afternoons of the CBS weekly movie (Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, etc.),
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And some are old enough to remember Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
Posted by: WisRich at February 04, 2025 12:01 PM (G0vdT)

I loved Wild Kingdom, growing up

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at February 04, 2025 12:04 PM (xcxpd)

403 Oh, I loved that show as a kid. 7 PM on Sundays.
Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

Followed by The Wonderful World of Disney, which was usually stories about bears named "Old Ben" or pets making improbable cross-country treks.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2025 12:05 PM (LxER7)

404 I'll start cheering when the execs are jumping out the windows.
Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 12:01 PM (2u02e)

There's a box of sand flies right here with "Dr." Fauci's name on it.

Posted by: Beagles at February 04, 2025 12:05 PM (FCbAQ)

405 "Sunday afternoons of the CBS weekly movie (Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, etc.),"

Family Classics with Frazier Thomas, WGN.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 12:06 PM (6CsVH)

406 393 And some are old enough to remember Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
Posted by: WisRich

Oh, I loved that show as a kid. 7 PM on Sundays.
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Jim would wrestle anything.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 12:06 PM (Wg6v7)

407 Was it the Suzuki Samurai that had an actual rollover problem or was that another sensationalist media piece? Been a long time...
Posted by: Rollover with honor at February 04, 2025 12:03 PM (URPBf)

IIRC, it did but...

- you had to be going pretty fast and turn pretty sharp to do it.
- Suzuki knew about it and had already changed the model before the piece aired.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 12:06 PM (ExV1e)

408 People are bored and stupid and it fills the gaps in their empty lives.
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Masturbation is out now?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 04, 2025 12:04 PM (Q0kLU)

And then when the fentanyl stops flowing across the border, we'll be shit out of luck.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 12:06 PM (2u02e)

409 Yeah, I watched it this morning - the copter literally keeps rising into the plane...or it's what it looked like...
Posted by: Nova Local at February 04, 2025 12:02 PM (exHjb)

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50/50 it was done on purpose

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 12:06 PM (Vh9CX)

410 McConnell doesn't do well with systemic change. It's one of the reasons he hates Trump.

He also used to run the Senate as if it was 1825. Clueless as to the animosity shared among his "friends across the aisle" about him and his party.

He's been a stooge for decades.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 04, 2025 12:07 PM (Q4IgG)

411 - you had to be going pretty fast and turn pretty sharp to do it.
- Suzuki knew about it and had already changed the model before the piece aired.
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Every M151 Army jeep would do this.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 12:07 PM (Wg6v7)

412 Jim would wrestle anything.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 12:06 PM (Wg6v7)

Not true. We set up this kiddie pool and asked Helen Thomas to put on a bikini. Jim threatened to quit the show. -- Marlin Perkins

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 12:08 PM (ExV1e)

413 Former Federal working getting job in free market
First I work just 5 hours a week, need 3 months vacation a year, and will be working at home the whole time
When do.I start?

Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2025 12:08 PM (fwDg9)

414 I used to hit Helen Thomas

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at February 04, 2025

***
With a fire axe, no doubt

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 04, 2025 12:08 PM (J2vNu)

415 Didn't 60 Minutes do a hit piece on a car that supposedly had "unintended acceleration?"

Imma use that for my next speeding ticket. "My car just accelerated on its own. 60 Minutes once did a piece on that."

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 12:08 PM (i89tL)

416 ***Well of course it would be Mitch McConnell, retired…
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China Monkey
_Chairman Xi

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 04, 2025 12:09 PM (DvLTT)

417 401 People are bored and stupid and it fills the gaps in their empty lives.

Masturbation is out now?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

I miss Joe Mannix's pic links and hope he quits his new job.

Posted by: Auspex at February 04, 2025 12:09 PM (j4U/Z)

418 412 Jim would wrestle anything.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 12:06 PM (Wg6v7)

Not true. We set up this kiddie pool and asked Helen Thomas to put on a bikini. Jim threatened to quit the show. -- Marlin Perkins
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You didn't fill the pool with mud.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025 12:09 PM (Wg6v7)

419 Was it the Suzuki Samurai that had an actual rollover problem or was that another sensationalist media piece? Been a long time...
Posted by: Rollover with honor at February 04, 2025 12:03 PM (URPB

Hell yeah that was the Suzuki.
A square wheelbase and high center of gravity will do that to you.
Jeep CJ's equally likely to roll also, but Jeep owners know it.
Suzuki's were marketed to the young and "outdoorsy"
Jeeps have spare tire covers that say "If you can read this, tip me back over"

Posted by: OneEyedJack at February 04, 2025 12:09 PM (FCbAQ)

420 ***Will McConnell be remembered as a sharp Senate tactician?
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Trent Lott was his mentor.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 04, 2025 12:09 PM (DvLTT)

421 Didn't 60 Minutes do a hit piece on a car that supposedly had "unintended acceleration?"

Imma use that for my next speeding ticket. "My car just accelerated on its own. 60 Minutes once did a piece on that."
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 12:08 PM (i89tL)

Pretty sure that was NBC Dateline.

Posted by: BurtTC at February 04, 2025 12:10 PM (emN+3)

422 And some are old enough to remember Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.
Posted by: WisRich
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Oh, I loved that show as a kid. 7 PM on Sundays.
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Jim would wrestle anything.
Posted by: Pudinhead at February 04, 2025

***
Six p.m. Central Time, here. Though we usually watched Lassie on Sunday evenings.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 04, 2025 12:10 PM (J2vNu)

423 Bonanza was also on Sundays. I think Wild Wild West was on Fridays.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 12:10 PM (IOGah)

424 "I'm at the point now where I have to take Viagra before I masturbate."

-Mitch McConnell

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 04, 2025 12:10 PM (kJuzF)

425 > 9 Leslie Stahl has a prompter to remember to breathe.

Why do Leslie's shoes have TGIF printed on them?

Stands for Toes Go In First.

> Jessica Savitch

She was definitely smokin'. She had her demons, though, and came to a tragic end.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 04, 2025 12:11 PM (W5ArC)

426 Former Federal working getting job in free market
First I work just 5 hours a week, need 3 months vacation a year, and will be working at home the whole time
When do.I start?
Posted by: Skip at February 04, 2025 12:08 PM (fwDg9)

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Also a pension worth my annual pay and full benefits in retirement.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 04, 2025 12:11 PM (Vh9CX)

427 417 Longview:
youtube.com/watch?v=llvDJJeYde4

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 12:11 PM (6CsVH)

428 Montanans need snowfall this time of year to insulate the dental floss crop from the sub-zero temps. It's a lot like winter wheat in that regard.

Posted by: Farm Monitor at February 04, 2025 12:12 PM (G5+As)

429
Pretty sure that was NBC Dateline.
Posted by: BurtTC
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By the time NBC did that both were crap shows and we knew it.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 04, 2025 12:12 PM (DvLTT)

430 Was Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom" the last of the single sponsor shows?

I remember watching the show growing up. Fun show, though dad did make the point the old man wrestling in the mud with a critter was kind of ridiculous.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at February 04, 2025 12:13 PM (tT6L1)

431 I miss Joe Mannix's pic links and hope he quits his new job.
Posted by: Auspex at February 04, 2025 12:09 PM (j4U/Z)

This woman gets paid to be pretty. SFW.

https://i.IMGur.com/Vb8A2tz.jpg

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at February 04, 2025 12:13 PM (ExV1e)

432 >>Montanans need snowfall this time of year to insulate the dental floss crop from the sub-zero temps.

True. Though, it is hard to see the little white boxes for the snow.

Posted by: garrett at February 04, 2025 12:13 PM (9Q8fk)

433 Followed by The Wonderful World of Disney, which was usually stories about bears named "Old Ben" or pets making improbable cross-country treks.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 04, 2025

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Sammy the Way-Out Seal, w/ Robert Culp (I think). But there was also room for dramatic adventure like The Swamp Fox w/ Leslie Nielsen as Francis marion, and Dr. Syn (the Scarecrow) w/ Patrick McGoohan. And the Zorro series wiht Guy Williams was a Disney production.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 04, 2025 12:13 PM (J2vNu)

434 He's gonna fire Linda McMahon after she presents a plan to eliminate the Department of Education.
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I think he'll put her in a ladder match instead....

Posted by: Crusader at February 04, 2025 12:13 PM (azSra)

435 First military deportation flight to Gitmo is wheels up.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 04, 2025 12:14 PM (Y1sOo)

436 I would trade two Jeeps for one Kubelwagen.

Posted by: Hans Gudegast at February 04, 2025 12:15 PM (G5+As)

437 8 People are bored and stupid and it fills the gaps in their empty lives.
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Masturbation is out now?
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 04, 2025 12:04 PM (Q0kLU)

There goes the entirety of my sex life. Dammit.

Posted by: One is the loneliest number at February 04, 2025 12:15 PM (URPBf)

438 Bonanza was also on Sundays. I think Wild Wild West was on Fridays.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025

***
Yep. Man From U.N.C.L.E. moved around to a different day and/or time slot every year, two in its first year. But the fans always found it.

Mission: Impossible premiered on Saturdays, but then it moved to Sundays.

And we all know Trek began on Thursdays but moved to Fridays.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 04, 2025 12:16 PM (J2vNu)

439 This woman gets paid to be pretty. SFW.

https://i.IMGur.com/Vb8A2tz.jpg
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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One day, a woman who spent a fortune at the dermatologist and an man who did same will marry and have the ugliest children you ever saw.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 04, 2025 12:16 PM (DvLTT)

440 Todd Young voting for Tulsi, Cassidy for RFK. Arm twisting

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 04, 2025 12:16 PM (U/Wlk)

441 Sally Quinn could look pretty sultry in her younger days as well. Old Money WaPo owner Ben Bradlee apparently agreed.

Q. Why did Sally Quinn not go to work on October 21, 1978?

A. Called in rich.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 04, 2025 12:16 PM (W5ArC)

442
omg life is too beautiful to rant this morning! It's raining outside, I don't have to be at work for 90 minutes, and Tim Kaine is crying to Andrea Mitchell about the shutdown of USAID.

One great thing about Trump 2.0 is that I can start hate-watching MSNBC again. It's safe to go back in the water.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at February 04, 2025 12:17 PM (W0D6g)

443 the problem is Trump needs McConnell's vote, and McConnell is petty and spiteful and will use the slightest provocation to knife Trump and his voters in the back, like McCain did in Trump's first term

McConnell's legacy will be determined by the performance of Trump nominees Mitch opposes. If Pete Hegseth makes positive changes, McConnell will be remembered as the person who tried and failed to stop it.

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at February 04, 2025 12:17 PM (V6W16)

444 Ugly with nice skin.

Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025 12:17 PM (6CsVH)

445 Was it the Suzuki Samurai that had an actual rollover problem or was that another sensationalist media piece? Been a long time...
Posted by: Rollover with honor at February 04, 2025 12:03 PM (URPBf)

All high-clearance vehicles will roll more easily than a low-clearance vehicle of the same size and mass. All comes down to the location of the center of gravity. WWII Jeeps were famous for rollover accidents, and many GI's died that way. You cannot drive a high-clearance 4X4 like it was a sports car.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 04, 2025 12:18 PM (8zz6B)

446 Boss still asleep?

Posted by: Inogame at February 04, 2025 12:18 PM (53oGX)

447 Time to go hard.

Posted by: gp's Nood-Conjuring Willowable Comment at February 04, 2025 12:18 PM (6CsVH)

448 446 Boss still asleep?
Posted by: Inogame at February 04, 2025 12:18 PM (53oGX)

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He's posting on the X.

Probably looking for a story to start the day.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 04, 2025 12:19 PM (GBKbO)

449 NOOD

D of Ed

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2025 12:19 PM (Vqx30)

450 436 I would trade two Jeeps for one Kubelwagen.
Posted by: Hans Gudegast
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With a Porsche engine.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at February 04, 2025 12:19 PM (DvLTT)

451 > Tim Kaine is crying to Andrea Mitchell about the shutdown of USAID.

Communist tears are delicious.

I love seeing them driven before me and hearing the lamentations of their transwomen.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 04, 2025 12:19 PM (W5ArC)

452 nood

Posted by: gp's Nood-Conjuring Willowable Comment at February 04, 2025 12:19 PM (6CsVH)

453 U nas yest' NOOD.

Posted by: Bulg at February 04, 2025 12:19 PM (77rzZ)

454 "Sunday afternoons of the CBS weekly movie (Sound of Music, Wizard of Oz, etc.),"

Family Classics with Frazier Thomas, WGN.
Posted by: Receive gp's Free No-Information Obligation Packet at February 04, 2025

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ABC had their Sunday Night Movie, usually a fairly-recent blockbuster (or what we knew as a blockbuster back then): Moby Dick with Gregory Peck, for example, or later, The Flight of the Phoenix with James Stewart.

("She is not a toy, Mr. Townes. She is an aeroplane!")

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 04, 2025 12:20 PM (J2vNu)

455 - Trump sending American and illegal alien criminals to Gitmo

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(goes back to try to find that comment a few weeks ago where I posted this)

It's fun to stay at the YMCA!

https://tinyurl.com/tzrd23b2

Get it yet? He was trolling the entire time, and it's just getting started.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You can only be a feminist in a 1st world patriarchy where men allow it at February 04, 2025 12:20 PM (5Kz79)

456 You cannot drive a high-clearance 4X4 like it was a sports car.

Not twice anyways.

Posted by: DaveA at February 04, 2025 12:20 PM (FhXTo)

457 Did the USAID assist in refusing GMO food for distribution or was that just the brain washed starving countries that refused it? ( at the insistence of woke relief agency personnel)

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 04, 2025 12:21 PM (IOGah)

458 I am fucked off about Bondi. Hate the choice honestly. Best we can hope for is she falls in line like a good little dog, like Nikki before her and maybe Rubio now.
Posted by: ... at February 04, 2025 11:47 AM (7Hjh9)
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Bondi is going to be great. She is no Nikki Haley and she adores Trump.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 04, 2025 12:21 PM (NpAcC)

459 WWII Jeeps were famous for rollover accidents, and many GI's died that way. You cannot drive a high-clearance 4X4 like it was a sports car.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

You can die because of a Cadillac accident, too.

Posted by: General Patton at February 04, 2025 12:22 PM (G5+As)

460 "The Flight of the Phoenix with James Stewart." Recommended.

Posted by: gp's Nood-Conjuring Willowable Comment at February 04, 2025 12:23 PM (6CsVH)

461 I crushed hard on Laurie Dhue when she was at Fox. She got messed up on alcohol and cocaine but is sober now and doing addiction awareness work. She's still a cutie.

Posted by: Bigsmith at February 04, 2025 12:31 PM (1Au9i)

462 449 NOOD

D of Ed
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at February 04, 2025 12:19 PM (Vqx30)

Posted by: m at February 04, 2025 12:43 PM (v0TzN)

463
The San Francisco Head Hunter

ISWYDT

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at February 04, 2025 12:47 PM (y9nCu)

464 I'm old enough to remember when 60 Minutes ended the show with "Point/Counterpoint" - a short debate between Shana Alexander and James J. Kilpatrick. I don't remember much of the actual segments, but it was enough of a touchstone that it was parodied in both Airplane! ("I say, let 'em crash!") and Saturday Night Live ("Jane, you ignorant slut!")

Posted by: Pete in Texas at February 04, 2025 12:56 PM (BHrzb)

465 I used to enjoy "60 Minutes", until they did an article on something I knew a lot about. And I saw the lies, the distortions, the omissions, the snarcasm, the blatant "well, he didn't lie, but he didn't tell the truth either." I couldn't watch them after that, total loss of credibility.

Posted by: Nancy@7000ft at February 04, 2025 02:35 PM (qFnnL)

466 Dan Rather would soon be out of a job at CBS. George W. Bush became president. And the prestigious '60 Minutes' was no longer prestigious.

Minor point... President George W. Bush was already President at the time. He was re-elected in 2004 despite the "60 Minutes" hit job that year to try to help John Kerry.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at February 04, 2025 02:40 PM (P5BPp)

467 The Gorilla is saying SCREW DARWIN

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 04, 2025 04:28 PM (wGqjj)

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